{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 34 - A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":159,"description":"Psalm 34: The Taste of God\nThe 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.\n00:00 I Will Bless the Lord at All Times\n00:30 O Magnify the Lord with Me\n01:00 O Taste and See\n01:30 The Fear of the Lord\n02:00 Nigh unto the Brokenhearted\n02:15 Not One Bone Broken","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}