What is Psalm 34 talking about?

The psalm is an acrostic poem in the Hebrew Alphabet, one of a series of songs of thanksgiving. It is the first Psalm which describes angels as guardians of the righteous. The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

What does it mean to seek the Lord?

To seek God mean to orient themselves to God and to pursue God rather than other goals.

What does it mean to bless the Lord?

Well, it simply means to praise, exalt, and worship Him. Specifically, it means to express humble adoration of God. Blessing the Lord is speaking well of God while you’re on your knees. It is bowing yourself low and speaking well of God who is high and lifted up.

Is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit?

Biblical Translations of Psalm 34:18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

What does it mean that God is close to the brokenhearted?

God is suffering love. Suffering is down at the center of things, down where the meaning is. God is with the brokenhearted, and God can be brokenhearted at our rejection of him. There is nothing we experience that God has not endured in God’s human life as Jesus.

Why is God near to the brokenhearted?

God is with the brokenhearted, and God can be brokenhearted at our rejection of him. There is nothing we experience that God has not endured in God’s human life as Jesus. The message of Psalm 34 and of much of the Bible is that God and real life are to be found in the midst of suffering.

What is the biblical meaning of broken hearted?

THE DICTIONARY DEFINES BROKENHEARTED as “overwhelmed. by grief or disappointment.” But what reader of the Bible needs to con- sult the dictionary? The affliction is personal experience. Biblical scholar-