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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 147 This psalm is thought to be written by David, and according to Theodoret predicts the return of the Jews from Babylon, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem by Zerubbabel, which seems to be grounded on Psalms 147:2; though the words there agree well enough with the times of David; hence the title in the Septuagint, Ethiopic, Arabic, and Syriac versions, and Apollinarius, is...
John Gill
He healeth the broken in heart,.... Christ is a physician; many are the diseases of his people; he heals them all by his blood, stripes, wounds; and among the rest their broken hearts, which none can cure but himself; hearts broken by the word, as a hammer, accompanied with a divine power; which have a true sense of sin, and godly sorrow for it; are truly contrite, such as the Lord has a respect...
Matthew Henry
This is another psalm of praise. Some think it was penned after the return of the Jews from their captivity; but it is so much of a piece with Ps. cxlv. that I rather think it was penned by David, and what is said (ver. 2, 13) may well enough be applied to the first building and fortifying of Jerusalem in his time, and the gathering in of those that had been out-casts in Saul's time. The...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Praise him for that, ye who have had broken hearts! If he has healed you, surely you should give him great praise.
Charles H. Spurgeon
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. To be a builder and a physician, too, are strange offices to be combined in one, yet so it is with God. Is there a broken heart here? The Lord is ready to heal you. See how he does it. “He bindeth up their wounds,”-puts on the strapping, wraps round the linen cloth, and secures the flesh until it heals. A wonderful surgeon is the Lord...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He healeth the broken in heart, He does it still, mark you, for the verb is in the present tense: “He healeth the broken in heart.” These are two of God’s great occupations, to gather outcasts, and to heal broken hearts.” Psa_147:3. And bindeth up their wounds. Oh, what a blessed God he is, thus to interest himself in the sorrows of mankind, to give his infinite mind and heart to this wondrous...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He is such a condescending God that he walks the hospitals, and is familiar with despondency, and enters in sympathy into the cases of distress which others shun because they are unable to help. Where he comes as the Good Physician, “He healeth the broken in heart.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. As we read that, we may well say again, “Hallelujah!”