Psalms 109:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:17 : 17 Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
  • Ps 86:1 : 1 <A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
  • Ps 102:4 : 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
  • Ps 102:17-20 : 17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side. 18 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord. 19 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven; 20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.
  • John 12:27 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
  • Ps 22:6 : 6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

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  • Ps 38:8-10
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    8I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

    10My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Ps 40:17
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    17Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

  • Ps 25:16-17
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    16Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

    17The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 109:21
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    21But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.

  • Ps 86:1
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    1<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

  • Ps 70:5
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    5But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

  • Ps 22:14-16
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    14I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

    16Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 109:16
    76%

    16Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

  • Lam 1:20
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    20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Ps 69:29
    76%

    29But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

  • Ps 6:2
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    2Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

  • Lam 1:22
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    22Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 109:26
    76%

    26Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

  • Ps 38:6
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    6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • Ps 109:23-24
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    23I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

    24My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Ps 55:4
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    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

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    20My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Job 30:25
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    25Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

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    17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • Ps 35:10
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    10All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

  • Ps 69:3
    73%

    3I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • Ps 142:6
    73%

    6Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

  • Ps 40:12
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    12For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • Ps 22:19
    73%

    19Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • Ps 9:13
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    13Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Ps 22:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • Ps 57:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

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    107I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

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    11Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

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    10Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

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    4Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

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    17Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

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    10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 30:16
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    16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Job 29:12
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    12For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.