Psalms 34:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. ”

• Psalms 34:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart - Margin, as in Hebrew: “to the broken of heart.” The phrase, “the Lord is nigh,” means that he is ready to hear and to help. The language is...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a (l) broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (l) When they seem to be swallowed up with afflictions, then God is at hand to deliver them.

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• Psalms 34:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  XXXIV. Yahweh's Care for His Own. An acrostic Ps., the letter Waw being omitted as in Psalms 25. Yahweh's care of the poor who fear Him. Psalms 34:5 . Read with LXX, look to him, be radiant, you...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Psalms 34:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. Jehovah is nigh to those who are broken of heart. David here exemplifies and extends still more the preceding doctrine, that God is the deliverer of his people, even when they are brough...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 554 THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE IN HEART ENCOURAGED Psalms 34:18 . The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. THE objects of God’...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. A broken heart - נשברי לב nishberey Web, the heart broken to shivers. A contrite spirit - דכאי רו...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart— God is near to all men: for in him they all live: but he is near to the broken in heart in a peculiar sense, as he is ever ready and always ab...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. The Lord is nigh ... Though He "dwells in the high and holy place," yet He stoops down so as...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The reliability of this title ( A Psalm of David; when he feigned madness (RM) before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed) is doubtful, both because the Philistine king in question is cal...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 34:1-22 THE occasion of this psalm, according to the superscription, was that humiliating and questionable episode, when David pretended insanity to save his life from the ruler of Goliath'...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Salvation of the Contrite Psalms 34:11-22 Psalms 34:11-14 : The gist of this exhortation is quoted by Peter in his first Epistle. See 1 Peter 3:10 . We need not fret to defend ourselves...

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• Psalms 34:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this psalm praise is personal. After the chorus of the last we have a solo full of feeling. It tells of the goodness of Jehovah and that in order that others may know and be helped. The opening de...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These are all so many charming additions of the security and blessedness of the people of God, and so plain as to need no comment.

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• Psalms 34:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  Psalms 32 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 32-34 = Day 6 ( Evening ).

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• Psalms 34:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The Lord [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart ,.... Who are pressed and bore down with afflictions, by the sorrow of heart under which their spirits are broken, Proverbs 15:13 ; or with a...

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• Psalms 34:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Ver. 18. The Lord is nigh unto them, &c. ] More nigh than the bark is to the tree, for he i...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart Ready to hear and succour them; though, by the course of his providence toward them, he may sometimes seem to themselves and others to stand af...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  An Exhortation to Fear God; The Privileges of the Righteous.       11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you th...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Nigh; ready to hear and succour them; though by the severe course of his providence towards them he seems to themselves and others to stand afar off, as David complains, Psalms 10:1 . Such as b...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  5). He Stresses YHWH's Deep Concern For His Own And His Deep Hatred Of Evil (15-20). Psalms 34:15-20 GH ‘The eyes of YHWH are towards the righteous, And his ears are open to their cry. P The...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION “This psalm is assigned by the superscription to the occasion when David, persecuted by Saul, fled to the Philistines, and being brought before Achish was driven away by him as a madman...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 34:18 One idea is embodied in these two sentences. According to a very common construction in the book of Psalms and in the book of Proverbs, and in other books of Holy Scripture, the latte...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 34:1 . I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. «Others may do what they please, and murmur, and complain, and be filled with dread and apprehension...

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• Psalms 34:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Psalms 34:6 . This poor man cried. David, a prince yesterday, was poor to-day; an exile among his enemies, and destitute of friends. Yesterday, Saul sought his life, and now the friends of Goliath...

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• Psalms 34:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. A devout hymn I. an exemplification of true praise. 1. It is thorough. (1) There is no praise without conc...

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• Psalms 34:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS is the third of the alphabetical psalms, and appears to have a special connection with the second of them, Psalms 25:1-19 . Like that psalm, it omits the vav , and has a seco...

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• Psalms 34:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  David Teaches True Piety

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• Psalms 34:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 22:19 ; Ezekiel 36:26 ; Ezekiel 36:31 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 61:1 ; Isaiah 66:2 ; Luke 4:18 ; Psalms 147:3 ; Psalms 51:17 ; Psalms 75:1 ; Psalms 8:1

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• Psalms 34:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Nigh — Ready to hear and succour them. To — Those whose spirits are truly humbled under the hand of God, and the sense of their sins, whose hearts are subdued, and made obedient to God's will and s...

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