Psalms 109:22
For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
In Context
23As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:27And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her away, and the man of God saith, 'Let her alone, for her soul [is] bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden [it] from me, and hath not declared [it] to me.'
Psalms 22:6And I [am] a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.
Psalms 40:17And I [am] poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer [art] Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.
Psalms 88:15I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors — I pine away.
Psalms 102:17He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is 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 →