Psalm 34:8 (BSB)

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

From Psalms 34. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Psalm 34:8

• 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 34:8: O taste and see. Make a trial, an inward, experimental trial of the goodness of God. You cannot see except by tasting for yourself; but if you taste you shall see, for this, like Jonathan's honey, enlightens the eyes. That the Lord is good. You can only know this really and personally by experience.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Psalm 34:1-10: The title of this psalm tells us both who penned it and upon what occasion it was penned. David, being forced to flee from his country, which was made too hot for him by the rage of Saul, sought shelter as near it as he could, in the land of the Philistines.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Psalm 34:8: O taste, and see that the Lord is good,.... He is essentially, infinitely, perfectly, immutably, and solely good in himself; and he is communicatively and diffusively good to others: he is the author of all good, but not of any evil, in a moral sense; this chiefly regards his special grace and goodness through Christ: all the divine Persons in the Godhead are good; the...