Psalms 109:22
Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
In Context
21But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)
23I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:27And when shee came to the man of God vnto the moutaine, she caught him by his feete: and Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away: but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soule is vexed within her, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told it mee.
Psalms 22:6But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.
Psalms 40:17Though I be poore and needie, the Lord thinketh on mee: thou art mine helper and my deliuerer: my God, make no tarying.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.
Psalms 102:17And shall turne vnto the prayer of the desolate, and not despise their prayer.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: 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 →