Psalms 147 · Verse 3

Psalms 147:3

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalms 147:3, King James Version

Psalms 147:3 in other translations

BSBHe heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
WEBHe heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
ASVHe healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.
YLTWho is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.
DARBYHe healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
BBEHe makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.
WebsterHe healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

What does Psalms 147:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. Though applicable to the captive Israelites, this is a general and precious truth. wounds--(Compare Margin).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 He healeth the broken in heart - שבורי, the shivered in heart. From the root שבר shabar, to break in pieces, we have our word shiver, to break into splinters, into shivers. The heart broken in pieces by a sense of God's displeasure.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 147:1-11

Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring them into his holy habitation. To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit, he speaks peace, assures them their sins are pardoned. And for this, let others praise him also. Man's knowledge is soon ended; but…

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Psalms 147:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הָ֭רֹפֵאHa.ro.fe'who [is] healingH7495
לִשְׁב֣וּרֵיlish.Vu.rei<to> [the people] broken ofH7665
לֵ֑בLevheartH3820
וּ֝מְחַבֵּ֗שׁu.me.cha.Beshand [he is] binding upH2280
לְעַצְּבוֹתָֽם\׃le.'a.tze.vo.Tam<to> wounds theirH6094

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 147:3

  • Psalms 34:18

    The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

  • Job 5:18

    For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

  • Jeremiah 33:6

    Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

  • Isaiah 61:1

    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

  • Luke 4:18

    The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

  • Hosea 6:1-2

    Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

  • Psalms 51:17

    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

  • Isaiah 57:15

    For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

  • Malachi 4:2

    But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

  • Ezekiel 34:16

    I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

  • Isaiah 1:5-6

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
healeth.
51:17; Job 5:18; Isa 57:15; 61:1; Jer 33:6; Ho 6:1,2; Mal 4:2
Lu 4:18
wounds. Heb. griefs.
Isa 1:5,6

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Context

  • Psalms 147:2

    The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

  • Psalms 147:3

    He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

  • Psalms 147:4

    He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

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Psalms 147:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El sana á los quebrantados de corazón, y liga sus heridas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		C’est lui qui guérit ceux qui ont le cœur brisé, et qui bande leurs plaies;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Der da heilt, die zerbrochenen Herzens sind, und ihre Wunden verbindet;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Qui posuit fines tuos pacem, et adipe frumenti satiat te.