Psalm 51:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness; That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Common English Bible

⁸ Let me hear joy and celebration again; let the bones you crushed rejoice once more.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:

Psalm 51:8 Cross References

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 35:10

All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you? You deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them.”

Psalm 30:11

You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Psalm 13:5

But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are present here offering freely and joyously to you.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.