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This word signifies beaten or bruised, as with hard blows, or an heaver burden; and so in Scripture language imports one whose heart is broken and wounded for sin, on opposition to the heart of stone, Is. 66: 2. Psa_51:17. Psa 57: 15. The evidences of a broken and contrite spirit are,
1. Deep conviction of the evil of sin.
2. Humiliation under a sense of it, Job_42:5; Job_6:1-30 :
3. Pungent sorrow for it, Zec_12:10.
4. Ingenuous confession of it, 1Jn_1:9.
5. Prayer for deliverance from it, Psa_51:10. Luk_18:13.
6. Susceptibility of good impressions, Eze_11:19.