Psalms 109:22

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:17 : 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.
  • Ps 86:1 : 1 [A Prayer of David]. Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
  • Ps 102:4 : 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
  • Ps 102:17-20 : 17 He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth; 20 To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them] .
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
  • John 12:27 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 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 become rich.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Jehovah hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
  • Ps 22:6 : 6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

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  • Ps 38:8-10
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    8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 17But I am poor and needy; [Yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.

  • Ps 25:16-17
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    16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

    17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring thou me out of my distresses.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;

  • 1[A Prayer of David]. Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.

  • 5But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.

  • Ps 22:14-16
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    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

  • 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 16Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them] .

  • 20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • 29But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

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    2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

  • 22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 26Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:

  • 6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Ps 109:23-24
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    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.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  • 4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • 21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

  • 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

  • 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

  • 17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 10All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?

  • 3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • 19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

  • 6Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.

  • 12For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

  • 19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

  • 13Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

  • 1[For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David]. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?

  • 1[For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave]. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, Until [these] calamities be overpast.

  • 107I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according unto thy word.

  • 4I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; For I have sinned against thee.

  • 11Be not far from me; For trouble is near; For there is none to help.

  • 10Hear, O Jehovah, and have mercy upon me: Jehovah, be thou my helper.

  • 4Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.

  • 17And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.

  • 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.