Psalm 147:3 (KJV)

What does this mean?

This psalm praises God for gathering his scattered people back together after exile, and for tending them like a doctor tends the wounded. It says God heals those whose hearts are broken and bandages their wounds. The verse is a short saying about God's care for the hurting — it pictures him close, gentle, and hands-on, not distant from the pain.

What does this teach us?

God tends broken hearts the way a doctor tends wounds. The verse does not promise that every hurt disappears at once, but it says God himself comes close to the brokenhearted, and his healing is personal and tender.

How can we apply this?

If your heart is broken today, let God tend it instead of hiding it. Tell him plainly where it hurts, let one trusted person sit with you in it, and give the healing time — bandages work slowly, and so does God's healing of a heart.

Related KJV passages

• “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”

  Psalm 34:18

• “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”

  Matthew 5:4

• “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD , that he might be glorified.”

  Isaiah 61:3