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Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves those who have a crushed spirit.
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While the world values strength and self-sufficiency, commentators like Charles Spurgeon highlight that God treasures a "broken and a contrite heart." Scholars explain this isn't about emotional fragility, but a spirit humbled by sin and broken from self-confidence. Matthew Henry describes this state as the fertile "soil" in which God's grace can flourish.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Lord is near to those who are of a broken heart — Margin, as in Hebrew: “to the broken of heart.” The phrase, “the Lord is near…
19th Century
Baptist
The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to them that are of a broken heart; and sa…
16th Century
Protestant
Jehovah is near to those who are broken of heart. David here exemplifies and further extends the preceding doctrine: that God is the deliv…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart Who are pressed and bore down with afflictions, by the sorro…
Let young people set out in life by learning the fear of the Lord, if they desire true comfort here and eternal happiness hereafter. Those will be …
13th Century
Catholic
1. The title is a psalm of David, when he changed his countenance before Abimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way.<…
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