The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
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Gill's Exposition
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, Pro 15:13; or with a sense of…
Barnes' Notes
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, of…
David, in this latter part of the psalm, undertakes to teach children. Though a man of war, and anointed to be king, he did not think it below him; though now he had his head so full of cares and his…
Cambridge Bible
nigh&c. Cp. Psa 119:151; Isa 50:8; and the contrast, Psa 10:1. The broken in heartand crushed in spiritare those who have been broken down and crushed by sorrow and suffering (Psa 147:3; Isa 61:1; Jer…
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