New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 109:22
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
20May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, And of those who speak evil against my soul. 21But You, God, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; Because Your mercy is good, rescue me; For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. 23I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust. 24My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:22 word by word
כִּֽי־עָנִ֣י וְאֶבְי֣וֹן אָנֹ֑כִי וְ֝לִבִּ֗י חָלַ֥ל בְּקִרְבִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 109:22
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a person, A disgrace of mankind and despised by the people.
- Psalms 40:17But I am afflicted and needy; May the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my savior; Do not delay, my God.
- Psalms 86:1Incline Your ear, Lord, and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy.
- Psalms 102:17He has turned His attention to the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer.
- Matthew 8:20And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky 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 through His poverty might become rich.
- Psalms 109:16Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the afflicted and needy person, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.
- Psalms 88:15I was miserable and about to die from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I grow weary.
- Psalms 102:4My heart has been struck like grass and has withered, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
- 2 Kings 4:27But she came to the man of God at the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has concealed it from me and has not informed me.”
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks their poison; The terrors of God line up against me.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and abandoned by men, A man of great pain and familiar with sickness; And like one from whom people hide their faces, He was despised, and we had no regard for Him.
- Luke 22:44And being in agony, He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground].
- John 12:27“Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came 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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