Tree of Life Version
Psalms 109:22
22For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded 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.
- 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
20Let this be Adonai’s reward to my accusers, and to those who speak evil against me. 21But You, Adonai my Lord, deal with me for Your Name’s sake. Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me. For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23I fade away like an evening shadow, shaken off like a locust. 24My knees totter from fasting, and my flesh is lean, 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 22:6They cried to you and were delivered. In You they trusted, and were not disappointed.
- Psalms 40:17Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let those who love Your salvation continually say: “Adonai be magnified!”
- Psalms 86:1A prayer of David. Turn Your ear, Adonai, and answer me, for I am weak and needy.
- Psalms 102:17For Adonai has rebuilt Zion. He has appeared in His glory.
- Matthew 8:20Yeshua tells him, “Foxes have dens 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 Yeshua the Messiah—that even though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.
- Psalms 109:16For he never remembered to show mercy. But he persecuted a poor and needy man, crushed in spirit, to put him to death.
- Psalms 88:15Adonai, why do You spurn me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 102:4For my days vanished like smoke, and my bones were burned like coals.
- 2 Kings 4:27But when she arrived at the mountain, up to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi stepped forward to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, yet Adonai has hid it from me and has not told me.”
- Job 6:4For the arrows of Shaddai are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors line up against me.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, One from whom people hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
- Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He was praying fervently; and His sweat was like drops of blood falling down on the ground.
- John 12:27“Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But it was for this reason 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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