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Bible Verses About Brokenness and Vessels
Find Bible verses about brokenness and vessels — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about brokenness and vessels?
The Bible addresses brokenness and vessels with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Psalms 51:17
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”
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Psalms 34:18
“Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”
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2 Corinthians 4:7
“But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.”
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Psalms 31:12
“I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.”
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Daniel 5:23
“but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.”
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Psalms 109:22
“for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.”
Jeremiah 23:9
“Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.”
Romans 9:23
“and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,”
Numbers 3:31
“Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.”
Ezra 8:28
“I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.”
Matthew 25:4
“but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”
Jeremiah 22:28
“Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?”
2 Chronicles 36:7
“Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.”
Romans 9:22
“What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,”
Ezra 5:15
“and he said to him, 'Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.'”
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Daniel 1:2 — “The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; a...”
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