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Psalm 51

Psa. 51:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Make me to hear
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
joy
sasown (Hebrew #8342)
from 7797; cheerfulness; specifically, welcome
KJV usage: gladness, joy, mirth, rejoicing.
Pronounce: saw-sone'
Origin: or sason {saw-sone'}
and gladness
simchah (Hebrew #8057)
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
KJV usage: X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
Pronounce: sim-khaw'
Origin: from 8056
; that the bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
which thou hast broken
dakah (Hebrew #1794)
to collapse (phys. or mentally)
KJV usage: break (sore), contrite, crouch.
Pronounce: daw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1790, 1792)
may rejoice
giyl (Hebrew #1523)
a primitive root; properly, to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear
KJV usage: be glad, joy, be joyful, rejoice.
Pronounce: gheel
Origin: or (by permutation) guwl {gool}
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Matt. 5:4• 4Blessed they that mourn; for they shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:4)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 13:5• 5But I in thy mercy have trusted;{HR}My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation; (Psa. 13:5)
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Psa. 30:11• 11Thou hast turned my lamentation into a dance;{HR}Thou hast loosed for me my sackcloth,{HR}And thou girdest me with joy: (Psa. 30:11)
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Psa. 119:81‑82• 81My soul fainteth for thy salvation;{HR}In thy word do I hope.
 82Mine eyes fail for thy saying, so that I say (saying),{HR}When wilt thou comfort me? (Psa. 119:81‑82)
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Psa. 126:5‑6• 5Those that sow with tears{HR}Shall reap with joyful song.
 6Surely (going) he goeth and weepeth, bearing a load of the seed;{HR}Surely (coming) he shall come with joyful song, bearing his sheaves. (Psa. 126:5‑6)
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Matt. 5:4• 4Blessed they that mourn; for they shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:4)
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Psa. 6:2‑3• 2Be merciful unto me, O Jehovah, for I am languishing;{HR}Heal me, O Jehovah, for my bones are terrified.
 3And my soul is greatly terrified;{HR}And thou, O Jehovah, how long? (Psa. 6:2‑3)
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Psa. 38:3• 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;{HR}There is no peace in my bones because of my sin. (Psa. 38:3)
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Job 5:17‑18• 17Lo, happy the man whom God correcteth:{HR}Therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
 18For he woundeth, and bindeth up,{HR}He smiteth and his hands make whole. (Job 5:17‑18)
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Isa. 57:15‑18• 15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy, I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.
 17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
 18I have seen his ways and will heal him; and I will lead him, and will restore comforts to him and to those of his that mourn. (Isa. 57:15‑18)
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Hos. 6:1‑2• 1Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
 2After two days he will revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (Hos. 6:1‑2)
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Luke 4:18• 18[The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he hath sent me [to heal the broken-hearted], to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered, (Luke 4:18)
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Acts 2:37‑41• 37And when they heard, they were pricked in heart and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, What shall we do, brethren?
 38And Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
 39For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God shall call to [him].
 40And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
 41Those then that accepted his word were baptized; and there were added that day about three thousand souls. (Acts 2:37‑41)
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Acts 16:29‑34• 29And he called for lights, and sprang in, and trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,
 30and led them forth, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
 31and they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, a and thou shalt be saved and thy house.
 32And they spoke to him the word of the Lord b with all that were in his house.
 33And he took them at that hour of the night and washed [them] from their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his immediately.
 34And having brought them into his house, he set meat c before them, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God. (Acts 16:29‑34)
• Being cleansed, the soul would be restored to joy and gladness. (“Psalm 51” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Make me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

W. Kelly Translation

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Make me to hear joy and gladness;{HR}The bones thou hast broken shall rejoice.