EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Psalms 109:22
22I am weak and helpless. My heart beats fast inside me.
Psalms 109:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
- New International Version (NIV)For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Context of Psalms 109:22
20Yes, Lord, please punish all my enemies like that, because they say evil things to accuse me! 21You, Almighty Lord, must help me! Show that your name is great. Rescue me, because your faithful love is good. I am weak and helpless. My heart beats fast inside me. 23I will soon be gone, like a shadow that disappears in the evening. I am like an insect that the wind blows away. 24I am so hungry that my knees shake. I am so thin that my bones show.
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:22 word by word
כִּֽי־עָנִ֣י וְאֶבְי֣וֹן אָנֹ֑כִי וְ֝לִבִּ֗י חָלַ֥ל בְּקִרְבִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 109:22
- Psalms 22:6People insult me. They think that I am worth nothing. It seems that I am only a worm, and I am not really a man.
- Psalms 40:17But I am poor and weak, my Lord. Please continue to think about me. You are the one who helps me and who saves me. My God, come quickly to help me!
- Psalms 86:1Lord, please listen to me, and answer me! I am weak and I need help.
- Psalms 102:17He will answer the prayers of poor people who have nothing. He will not refuse to help them.
- Matthew 8:20Jesus replied, ‘Wild animals and birds have their own places to live. But I, the Son of Man, have no place of my own to lie down and rest.’
- 2 Corinthians 8:9You know that our Lord Jesus Christ is very kind. He was rich, but he made himself poor to help you. So then, because he became poor, you could become rich.
- Psalms 109:16My enemy was never kind to anyone. He was cruel to poor, weak, and helpless people. He even caused them to die,
- Psalms 88:15Since I was young, I have been in pain. I have always been near to death. You have caused bad troubles to frighten me, so that I feel helpless.
- Psalms 102:4I am very weak and upset, like dry grass that will soon die. I even forget to eat my food.
- 2 Kings 4:27But when she reached the man of God at Mount Carmel, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, ‘Leave her alone. She is very upset. But the Lord has hidden the reason from me. He did not tell me about her problem.’
- Job 6:4Almighty God has shot his arrows into me. Their poison is now deep inside me. God has sent me many troubles that make me afraid.
- Isaiah 53:3People did not respect him. They refused to accept him. He was a man who received much pain. He knew what it felt like to be weak and ill. People did not even want to look at him. They did not respect him. We decided that he was worth nothing.
- Luke 22:44Jesus began to have troubles in his mind. He prayed again even more strongly. His sweat became like blood and it fell to the ground.
- John 12:27Now I have trouble in my mind. What will I say? I might say, “Father, save me from this time of trouble!” But this difficult time is the purpose for which I came to the world.
Commentaries on Psalms 109:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22I am poor and needy - I am allicted and impoverished; and my heart is wounded - my very life is sinking through distress.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22For I am poor and needy - I am helpless and dependent. I am in a condition where I need thy gracious interposition. And my heart is wounded within me - I am as one that is prostrated by a weapon - as if my heart had been pierced. I have no courage, no strength. I am like one who lies wounded on a battlefield.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-31Verses 21-31 The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, while the soul prospers and is in health, than to have leanness in the soul, while the body is feasted. He was ridiculed and reproached by his enemies. But if God bless us, we need not care who curses us; for how can they curse whom God has not cursed…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21-25Feeling vulnerable and miserable, the psalmist asks his Lord for help. The accusations have crushed his spirit and drained his physical strength.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 21-2221-22. do ... for me--that is, kindness. wounded--literally, "pierced" (Psa 69:16, 29).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 109
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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