Psalm 109:22 {108:22}
Good News Translation
I am poor and needy; I am hurt to the depths of my heart.

New Revised Standard Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.

Contemporary English Version
I am poor and helpless, and I have lost all hope.

New American Bible
For I am poor and needy; my heart is pierced within me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

for I

Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Psalm 40:17 But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

Psalm 86:1 A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

Psalm 102:17-20 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. . . .

Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

and my

Psalm 109:16 because he remembered not to shew mercy,

Psalm 88:15,16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. . . .

Psalm 102:4 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Isaiah 53:3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
21But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me, 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.…
Cross References
Job 24:12
Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

Psalm 40:17
But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

Psalm 69:26
Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

Psalm 86:1
A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

Psalm 143:4
And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?

Psalm 109:21
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