Psalms 51:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.”
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“Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 51:8 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
- Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Psalms 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
- Psalms 30:11You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
- Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- Isaiah 35:10So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
- Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
- Acts 16:29Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
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