Psalms 109:22 · KJV
“For I {am} poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.”
— Psalms 109:22
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy {is} good, deliver thou me.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109 — Context
{Let} this {be} the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy {is} good, deliver thou me.
22For I {am} poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Cross References
Psalms 86:1
[A Prayer of David.] Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I {am} poor and needy. {A Prayer...: or, A Prayer, being a Psalm of David}
Psalms 102:4
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 40:17
But I {am} poor and needy; {yet} the Lord thinketh upon me: thou {art} my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Psalms 22:6
But I {am} a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul {is} vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid {it} from me, and hath not told me. {him...: Heb. by his feet} {vexed: Heb. bitter}
John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Psalms 88:15-16
I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.