Psalms 34:8
Psalms 34:88Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
is read in JW devotional contexts as an invitation to experience Jehovah's goodness through obedience and service. The Watchtower acknowledges the verse's affectionate tone but does not draw attention to its New Testament citation in — where Peter explicitly applies the "the Lord is good" of to Jesus Christ.
is one of the cleanest demonstrations of the Watchtower's selective Tetragrammaton policy. The verse in Hebrew has YHWH ("taste and see that Yahweh is good"). The NWT renders it "Jehovah" — consistent with the Watchtower's practice of inserting "Jehovah" wherever the OT has YHWH. But directly quotes this verse and applies it to Christ: "if you have tasted that the Lord is kind." The NWT renders as "the Lord" (kyrios) rather than "Jehovah" — breaking the Watchtower's stated rule for inserting "Jehovah" at NT quotations of OT YHWH passages, precisely because following the rule would identify Jesus as the YHWH the psalm describes. The selective rule reveals the underlying theological motivation: insert "Jehovah" where it separates Jesus from the divine identity; preserve "Lord" where insertion would equate them. Pair with and / (the same selective pattern) for the cumulative case.