Psalm 147:3 {146:3}
Good News Translation
He heals the broken-hearted and bandages their wounds.

New Revised Standard Version
He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

Contemporary English Version
He renews our hopes and heals our bodies.

New American Bible
Healing the brokenhearted, and binding up their wounds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

healeth

Psalm 51:17 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Job 5:18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Isaiah 57:5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Hosea 6:1,2 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord. . . .

Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

Luke 4:18 The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

wounds.

Isaiah 1:5,6 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. . . .

Context
It is Good to Sing Praises
2The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel. 3Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.4Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:26
Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

Job 5:18
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Psalm 6:2
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 34:18
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit.

Psalm 41:4
I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

Psalm 51:17
A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Psalm 107:20
He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.

Isaiah 30:26
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will preserve, and I will feed them in judgment.

Psalm 147:2
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