The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,
and saves such as have a contrite spirit.
David wrote this before he was king, when he was on the lam, pretending to be insane. Later, after the incident with Uriah and Bathsheba, he wrote, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, o God, Thou wilt not despise."
So even David the Psalmist had his words and his hymnody shaped by the hymns he had previously learned by heart.
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