Psalms 60:2
You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.
BSB
ASV
Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
KJV
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 20:3 (379)
Therefore, "O God, you have cast us off." You have cast off those who in proportion to their sins removed themselves a distance from you. You have destroyed the accumulations of our wickedness, doing good to us because of our weakness. You were angry, since "we were by nature children of wrath," having no hope and being without God in the world. You had mercy on us when "you sent forth your only-begotten Son as a propitiation for our sins," in order that in his blood we might find redemption.
Thou hast made the earth to tremble. Things were as unsettled as though the solid earth had been made to quake; nothing was stable; the priests had been murdered by Saul, the worst men had been put in office, the military power had been broken by the Philistines, and the civil authority had grown despicable through insurrections and intestine contests. Thou hast broken it. As the earth cracks, and opens itself in rifts during violent earthquakes, so was the kingdom rent with strife and calamity. Heal the breaches thereof.
The walk8
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2 Chronicles 7:14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and…
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Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done…
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Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
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See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.