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Psalm Chapter 34 - A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Summary
Psalm 34: The Taste of God The superscription tells us David wrote this psalm after pretending to be mad before Abimelech — after drooling into his beard and scratching at the gate like a lunatic to save his own skin. It is, in other words, a psalm born from humiliation. And yet what pours out is not shame but gratitude so fierce it becomes an invitation: "O taste and see that the Lord is good." That word "taste" is doing something no abstract theological statement could do. It is asking us not to believe a proposition but to put something on our tongues. David is not arguing for God; he is recommending him, the way one recommends a meal. "This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him." The emphasis is on the poverty — not despite it but because of it. The Lord is nigh, we are told, not to the impressive or the composed but "unto them that are of a broken heart." And then that astonishing promise at the end: "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." A line that would echo, centuries later, in a very different room, over a very different body. The man who pretended to be broken discovers that God keeps the truly broken whole. 00:00 I Will Bless the Lord at All Times 00:30 O Magnify the Lord with Me 01:00 O Taste and See 01:30 The Fear of the Lord 02:00 Nigh unto the Brokenhearted 02:15 Not One Bone Broken