Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
⛓ Read Psalm 34 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The LORD is near the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit; coheres with poor-in-spirit and those who mourn.
Medium confidence'The LORD is near to the brokenhearted' reinforces the 'Lord is near' motif with the same engys idiom, and Psalm 34 broadly underwrites Paul's confidence in deliverance. Recurrence of the nearness formula with Psalm 145 strengthens coherence, though volume per verse is moderate.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'YHWH is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit' coheres with Paul's God who draws near to comfort the afflicted. The psalm belongs to the deliverance-of-the-righteous-sufferer tradition Paul inhabits across the pericope, satisfying thematic coherence though the wording is comfort-adjacent rather than identical.
Medium confidenceThe promise that grace is sufficient and Christ's power rests on the weak loosely reflects the psalmic conviction that 'the LORD is near to those of a broken heart.' Faint and generic; included because Paul's grace-to-the-afflicted theology participates in the psalter's nearness-to-the-lowly tradition.
Low confidence