Psalms 109:22
For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
In Context
23I am going like a shadow; I am driven away as the locust.
Cross References
Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and not a man; The reproach of men, and the scorn of the people.
Psalms 40:17I am poor and afflicted, yet the Lord thinketh upon me; Thou art my help and my deliverer; My God! make no delay!
Psalms 88:15I have been afflicted and languishing from my youth; I suffer thy terrors, and am distracted.
Psalms 102:17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, And not despise their supplication.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows, and acquainted with disease; As one from whom men hide their faces, He was 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 →