Psalms 146:3
Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui sanat contritos corde, et alligat contritiones eorum ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ ἰώμενος τοὺς συντετριμμένους τὴν καρδίαν, καὶ δεσμεύων τὰ συντρίμματα αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 147:3
- הָ֭רֹפֵא לִשְׁב֣וּרֵי לֵ֑ב וּ֝מְחַבֵּ֗שׁ לְעַצְּבוֹתָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Bruises. God delivered the captives, after chastising them, Deuteronomy xxxii. 39. (Calmet)
He gives life to the penitent, as Christ healed the sick, &c., Isaias lxi. 1. (Berthier)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLVII
5. How doth He gather? What doeth He in order to gather? “Who healeth the bruised in heart” ( ver. 3 ). Behold the way in which the dispersions of Israel are gathered, by the healing of the bruised in heart. They who are not of a bruised heart, are not healed. What is to bruise the heart? Let it be known, brethren, let it be done, that ye may be able to be healed. For it is told in many other places of Scripture;…“the sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit, a bruised and contrite heart God will not despise.” He healeth then the bruised in heart, for He draweth nigh unto them to heal them; as is said in another place, “the Lord is nigh unto them who have bruised their heart.” Who are they that have “bruised their heart”? The humble. Who are they that have not “bruised their heart”? The proud. The bruised heart shall be healed, the puffed up heart shall be dashed down. …