Psalm 34:18 (BSB)

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

From Psalms 34. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Psalm 34:18

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Psalm 34:1-22: PSALM 34. A Psalm of David, when he changed his countenance before Abimelech, who banished him from his presence, and he departed from him. David gives thanks to God for a signal deliverance, and takes occasion from it to celebrate his perpetual grace towards all the saints, and to exhort them both to trust in him, and to the study of godliness; affirming, that the...
• C.H. Spurgeon (Reformed Baptist), The Treasury of David on Psalm 34:18: The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart. Near in friendship to accept and console. Broken hearts think God far away, when he is really most near them; their eyes are holden so that they see not their best friend. Indeed, he is with them, and in them, but they know it not.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Psalm 34:11-22: 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 hands of business, yet he could find heart and time to give good counsel to young people, from his own experience.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Psalm 34:18: 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 sin, and sorrow for it, for which their hearts smite them, and they are wounded by it, and broken with it: to these the Lord is "nigh"...