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Psalms 147:3

ComfortSickness and healingGriefMercy and compassion

1 Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!

2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

4 He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.

5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

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BSB
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
KJV
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
WEB
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
ASV
He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.
DARBY
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
BLB
giving healing to the broken of heart, and binding up their wounds,
ÅB
Han helbreder dem som har et sønderknust hjerte, og forbinder deres smertefulle sår.
OTB
Han leger de som har et sønderknust hjerte
Og forbinder deres sår.
B1930
Han helbreder dem som har et sønderknust hjerte, og forbinder deres smertefulle sår.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 34:18

    The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

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  • Job 5:18

    For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

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  • Jeremiah 33:6

    Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

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  • Isaiah 61:1

    The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

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  • Luke 4:18

    “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

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  • Hosea 6:1–2

    Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

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  • Psalms 51:17

    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

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  • Isaiah 57:15

    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

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