Psalms 109:22

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 LORD, hear 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 goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
  • Ps 102:4 : 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
  • Ps 102:17-20 : 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; 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 air 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 was as it were great drops of blood falling down to 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 be rich.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 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.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 38:8-10
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    8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

    10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

  • 1 A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

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

  • Ps 22:14-16
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    14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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

    16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

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

  • 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

  • 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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

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    2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

  • 22 Let 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.

  • 26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

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

  • Ps 109:23-24
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    23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

    24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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

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

  • 22 For 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.

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

  • 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 20 Reproach 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.

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

  • 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

  • 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

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

  • 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

  • 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

  • 1 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A alm 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 roaring?

  • 1 To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

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

  • 4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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

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

  • 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

  • 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

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

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

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