Psalm 147:2-5

He Heals the Brokenhearted

² The Lord _m builds up Jerusalem;
he _n gathers the outcasts of Israel.
³ He heals _o the brokenhearted
and _p binds up their wounds.
⁴ He _q determines the number of the stars;
he _r gives to all of them their names.
⁵ _s Great is our Lord, and _t abundant in power;
_u his understanding is beyond measure.

1. Cross References
   Psalms 51:18
   Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
   Psalms 102:16
   For the Lord builds up Zion; he appears in his glory.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 30:3
   Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
   Isaiah 11:12
   He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
   Isaiah 27:13
   And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
   Isaiah 56:8
   The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, "I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.
   Ezekiel 39:28
   Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 34:18
   The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
   
4. Cross References
   Ezekiel 34:16
   I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
   
5. Cross References
   Genesis 15:5
   And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
   
6. Cross References
   Isaiah 40:26
   Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.
   
7. Cross References
   Psalms 48:1
   Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain.
   
8. Cross References
   Nahum 1:3
   The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
   
9. Cross References
   Isaiah 40:28
   Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
   Job 5:9
   Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number: