Bible verses about "brokenness" | Thomson

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bersabe. Have mercy upon me, God, according to thy great compassion: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out this my crime, ² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin. ³ For I acknowledge my transgression; and my sin is continually before me. ⁴ Against thee especially I have sinned; and in thy sight done this evil. So that thou must be justified in thine acts, and must overcome, when thou art judged. ⁵ For behold I was born in iniquity; in sins my mother conceived me: ⁶ for behold thou lovedst truth; to me thou hadst manifested the obscure and hidden things of thy wisdom. ⁷ Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be purified; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ⁸ Cause me to hear joy and gladness; let the bones, which have been humbled, rejoice. ⁹ Turn away thy face from my sins; and blot out all mine iniquities. ¹⁰ Create in me, God, a pure heart; and renew a right spirit within me. ¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me. ¹² Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and support me with a becoming spirit, ¹³ that I may teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners may turn to thee. ¹⁴ Deliver me from blood guiltiness, God, the God of my salvation! That my tongue may with joy proclaim thy forgiving mercy. ¹⁵ Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may proclaim thy praise. ¹⁶ Hadst thou desired sacrifice, I would have given it. In whole burnt offerings thou wilt not take delight. ¹⁷ The sacrifice for God is a contrite spirit. A broken and an humble heart, thou, God, wilt not despise. ¹⁸ Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good pleasure, with Sion. And let the walls of Jerusalem be builded. ¹⁹ Then wilt thou be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness as an offering, and on thine altar young bulls shall then be offered up as whole burnt offerings.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth, my footstool: what sort of an house will you build for me? And of what sort shall be the place of my rest? ² For all these things my hand hath made: and all these things are mine saith the Lord. Upon whom therefore will I look down, but upon him only who is humble and quiet, and who trembleth at my words?

¹ The word which came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying, ² "Arise and go down to the house of the potter and there thou shalt hear my words." ³ So I went down to the house of the potter; and behold he was making a piece of work on stones; ⁴ and the vessel, which he was fashioning with his hands, fell, whereupon he again made it a vessel of another sort as it seemed good to him to make it. ⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, ⁶ Cannot I do with you, house of Israel, as this potter? Behold you are in my hands like the clay of the potter. ⁷ When I speak to a nation or kingdom; that I will remove and destroy them; ⁸ if that nation turn from all their evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which I was resolving to bring on them. ⁹ And when I speak to a nation and kingdom that I will build up and replant: ¹⁰ If they do evil in my sight so as not to hearken to my voice, I indeed will alter my mind in respect to the good things which I spoke of doing for them. ¹¹ Now I have said to the men of Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold I am preparing evils against you and forming against you a determination; turn therefore every one from his evil way and make better things the objects of your pursuit: ¹² but they said, We will act like men. We will follow our own courses; and what every one findeth agreeable to his own wicked heart that we will do. ¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Inquire among the nations. Who hath heard of such horrible things as the virgin of Israel hath sedulously done? ¹⁴ Will crags forsake a rock or snow quit Libanus? Or water turn aside when furiously driven by wind? ¹⁵ Because my people have forgotten me; have burned incense to vanity; they will therefore break down the everlasting barriers in their ways that they may walk in paths having no road for travelling; ¹⁶ that they may make the land a desolation; an everlasting object of pity. All that pass through it shall be astonished and shake their head. ¹⁷ Like a burning wind I will scatter them before their enemies. I will shew them the day of their destruction. ¹⁸ Upon this they said, "Come let us settle on account with Jeremias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his words." ¹⁹ Hear me, Lord, and hearken to my justification. ²⁰ Shall evils be returned for good offices? Because they contrived designs against my life and concealed the punishment they intended for me. Remember how I stood before thee to intercede for them; to turn away thy wrath from them. ²¹ For this cause deliver up their sons to famine and give them up in multitudes to the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows; and the husbands be cut off by pestilence and their young men fall by the sword in battle. ²² Let a scream be heard in their houses. Thou wilt bring robbers suddenly on them because they contrived a speech to entrap me and concealed the snares they had set for me. ²³ Thou indeed, Lord, knewest all their designs against me to put me to death. Absolve them not from their wickedness, nor blot out their sins from before thee. Let their weakness be before thee. Deal with them in the time of thy wrath.

³ Happy the poor in spirit; for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs. ⁴ Happy they who mourn; for they shall be comforted.

¹⁶ Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man under the divine impulse is very powerful.

² For all these things my hand hath made: and all these things are mine saith the Lord. Upon whom therefore will I look down, but upon him only who is humble and quiet, and who trembleth at my words?

² and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, ³ Happy the poor in spirit; for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs. ⁴ Happy they who mourn; for they shall be comforted. ⁵ Happy the meek; for they shall inherit the land. ⁶ Happy they who hunger and thirst for righteousness; for they shall be satisfied. ⁷ Happy the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ Happy the pure in heart; for they shall see God. ⁹ Happy the peace makers; for they shall be called children of God. ¹⁰ Happy they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake; for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs. ¹¹ Happy are ye when men will revile and persecute you, and accuse you falsely of every evil thing on my account. ¹² Rejoice and exult triumphantly; for great will be your reward in heaven: for thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

⁸ For we do not, brethren, wish you to be ignorant with respect to that affliction of ours which befel us in Asia; that we were exceedingly pressed beyond our strength, so that we had indeed no hopes of life; ⁹ but had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead, ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will still deliver us,

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live"not I myself any more, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in flesh, I live by that belief which I have in the son of God, who loved me and delivered up himself for me.

⁶ It granteth indeed a greater favour, therefore it saith, "God resisteth the proud, and granteth favour to the humble."

¹² like a dead man out of mind I was quite forgotten: I became like a broken vessel.

⁵ Trust in God with thy whole heart; and be not elated for thine own wisdom. ⁶ Shew it in all thy ways, that it may make thy paths straight.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

²⁴ Verily, verily I say to you, If the grain of wheat which falleth on the ground dieth not, it remaineth a single grain. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

³ He healeth the broken hearted, and bindeth up their wounds;

¹⁷ The sacrifice for God is a contrite spirit. A broken and an humble heart, thou, God, wilt not despise.

¹⁸ The Lord is near to those of a contrite heart; and will save them who are lowly in spirit.