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Bible Verses About Heartbreak to Memorize
Heartbreak has many doors — a relationship that ended, a betrayal, a dream that died, a person who left — but the ache is the same, and the Bible speaks to it by name. “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,” David wrote. “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds,” adds Psalm 147, in the language of a physician dressing an injury.
These twelve verses hold both the wound and the healing. Psalm 56:8 says God has counted your tears and kept them in His bottle — not one fell unnoticed. Isaiah 61 announces a Messiah sent “to bind up the brokenhearted” and to trade beauty for ashes. Joel 2:25 makes the promise heartbreak most needs to hear: God restores the years the locust has eaten.
Healing rarely arrives all at once; it comes the way these verses come — a line at a time, returned to daily until it holds. That is what memorizing them is for.
KJV verse list
12 Bible verses about heartbreak
Each verse below is shown in the King James Version. Read it slowly, then use the note beneath it to see why it is worth carrying with you.
Psalm 34:18
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
The first verse for a broken heart: the LORD is nigh unto it, and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
God as physician: He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
For when your heart literally fails you: God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Isaiah 61:1-3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 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.
The Messiah’s job description includes you: sent to bind up the brokenhearted and give beauty for ashes.
Psalm 56:8
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
God has counted your wanderings and bottled your tears — heartbreak fully witnessed, nothing wasted.
Psalm 30:11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
The trajectory of grief in God’s hands: mourning turned into dancing, sackcloth exchanged for gladness.
Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
The restoration promise: “I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.”
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
The final healing: God shall wipe away all tears, and the former things are passed away.
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
The hardest promise to believe mid-heartbreak, and the truest: all things work together for good to them that love God.
Psalm 126:5-6
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy — your weeping is sowing, and a harvest is coming.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Reframes the ache: this light affliction is working a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Jesus’ honesty and His comfort in one line: in the world ye shall have tribulation, but He has overcome the world.
Memorization help
How to memorize these verses
Heartbreak loops the same painful scenes; give your mind a different loop. Memorize Psalm 34:18 and Psalm 147:3 first — they are short, and they answer the loneliest hours directly. Then take Isaiah 61:1-3 slowly, a phrase a day: brokenhearted, bound up; ashes, beauty; mourning, the oil of joy. Reviewing your verses at the times the ache predictably returns — late evening, the old anniversary, the song on the radio — meets the memory with the promise. The Bible Memory App is free to start and keeps these verses gently in front of you for as long as healing takes.
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FAQ
Questions about Bible verses on heartbreak
What does the Bible say about a broken heart?
It says God is unusually close to one. “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart” (Psalm 34:18), and “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3). Far from disqualifying you, a broken heart is the very condition Scripture says draws God’s nearness and care.
What is a good Bible verse after a breakup?
Psalm 147:3 for the wound itself; Psalm 73:26 — “God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever” — for rebuilding identity when someone who felt like your portion is gone; and Joel 2:25 for hope that the lost years will be restored. Memorizing one of these gives the hardest moments a script that is true.
Does God care about my heartbreak?
Psalm 56:8 answers with an image: God puts your tears in His bottle — He keeps count. Isaiah 61:1 says the Messiah was sent specifically “to bind up the brokenhearted,” and Jesus wept at a grave He was about to empty (John 11:35). Your heartbreak is neither too small for His attention nor too broken for His repair.
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