Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

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

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.