Psalms 109:22
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
In Context
23I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Psalms 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Psalms 102:17He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
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 →