English Standard Version
Psalms 109:22
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For I am poor and needy, and my heart is full of pain.
Context of Psalms 109:22
20May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life! 21But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. 23I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. 24My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
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 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
- Psalms 40:17As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
- Psalms 86:1Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
- Psalms 102:17he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
- Matthew 8:20And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
- Psalms 109:16For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
- Psalms 88:15Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
- Psalms 102:4My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
- 2 Kings 4:27And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me."
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Luke 22:44And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
- John 12:27"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
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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