Lexicon :: Strong's H7665 - šāḇar

as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish

with the east wind.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is[fn] a broken spirit.

You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God.

Insults have broken my heart,

and I am in despair.

I waited for sympathy,

but there was none;

for comforters, but found no one.

You divided the sea with your strength;

you smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the water;

There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows,

the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.Selah

They supply water for every wild beast;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

He called down famine against the land

and destroyed the entire food supply.

For he has broken down the bronze gates

and cut through the iron bars.

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net;

the net is torn, and we have escaped.

He heals the brokenhearted

and bandages their wounds.

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;

he will be shattered instantly, beyond recovery.

A ruler can be persuaded through patience,

and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

One who becomes stiff-necked,

after many reprimands

will be shattered instantly —

beyond recovery.

before the silver cord is snapped,[fn]

and the gold bowl is broken,

and the jar is shattered at the spring,

and the wheel is broken into the well;

Many will stumble over these;

they will fall and be broken;

they will be snared and captured.

The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,

the scepter of the rulers.

“Look, riders come —

horsemen in pairs.”

And he answered, saying,

“Babylon has fallen, has fallen.

All the images of her gods

have been shattered on the ground.”

The city of chaos is shattered;

every house is closed to entry.

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.

Women will come and make fires with them,

for they are not a people with understanding.

Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,

and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

The word of the LORD will come to them:

“Law after law, law after law,

line after line, line after line,

a little here, a little there,”

so they go stumbling backward,

to be broken, trapped, and captured.

“Its collapse will be like the shattering

of a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces,

so that not even a fragment of pottery

will be found among its shattered remains —

no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth

or scoop water from a cistern.”

I thought until the morning:

He will break all my bones like a lion.

By nightfall you make an end of me.

“He will not break a bruised reed,

and he will not put out a smoldering wick;

he will faithfully bring justice.

“I will go before you

and level the uneven places;[fn]

I will shatter the bronze doors

and cut the iron bars in two.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me,

because the LORD has anointed me

to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to heal[fn] the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives

and freedom to the prisoners;

“Will I bring a baby to the point of birth

and not deliver it? ”

says the LORD;

“or will I who deliver, close the womb? ”

says your God.

For my people have committed a double evil:

They have abandoned me,

the fountain of living water,

and dug cisterns for themselves ​— ​

cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

I will go to the powerful

and speak to them.

Surely they know the way of the LORD,

the justice of their God.

However, these also had broken the yoke

and torn off the chains.

I am broken by the brokenness

of my dear people.

I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

You are to speak this word to them:

Let my eyes overflow with tears;

day and night may they not stop,

for my dearest people[fn]

have been destroyed by a crushing blow,

an extremely severe wound.

Let my persecutors be put to shame,

but don’t let me be put to shame.

Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified.

Bring on them the day of disaster;

shatter them with total[fn] destruction.

“Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people going with you,

Go up to Lebanon and cry out;

raise your voice in Bashan;

cry out from Abarim,

for all your lovers[fn] have been crushed.

Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,

and all my bones tremble.

I have become like a drunkard,

like a man overcome by wine,

because of the LORD,

because of his holy words.

“This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

On that day —

this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies —

I will break his yoke from your neck

and tear off your chains,

and strangers will never again enslave him.

“He will smash the sacred pillars of the sun temple[fn][fn] in the land of Egypt and burn the temples of the Egyptian gods.’ ”

Moab will be shattered;

her little ones will cry out.