Psalms 109:22
For poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply wounded within me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
In Context
23Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:27And she came to the man of God to the mount, and caught hold of his feet; and Gechazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is grieved within her; and the Lord hath hidden it from me, and hath not told it me.
Psalms 22:6(22:7) But I am a worm, and not a man, a reproach of men, and despised of people.
Psalms 40:17(40:18) But though I be poor and needy, the Lord will think of me: my help and my deliverer art thou: O my God, delay not.
Psalms 88:15(88:16) I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.
Psalms 102:17(102:18) [When] he hath regarded the prayer of the forsaken, and doth not despise their prayer.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and shunned by men; a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one who hid his face from us was he despised, and we esteemed him not.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:22-31
Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 27 That… Read the whole commentary →