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The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18, ESV
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David wrote Psalm 34 while pretending to be insane to escape King Abimelech — a man at the lowest point of his life, playing a fool to survive. He emerged from that humiliation and wrote one of the most tender passages in all of Scripture.

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