for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
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Passages linked to Psalms 109:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 86:1 Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
- Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
- Psalms 102:4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
- 2 Kings 4:27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
- Psalms 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
- John 12:27 “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- Psalms 88:15-16 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
- Psalms 102:17-20 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah. For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth; to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
- Psalms 109:16 because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
- Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
- Matthew 8:20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
- Luke 22:44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 109:22 For I [am] poor and needy, and…
Psa 109:22 For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Ver. 22. For I am poor and needy] As a leper showeth his ulcers to move pity, so doth David his indigency and ailments.
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And my heart is wounded] I have my inward troubles also: or I am cordicitus vulneratus, almost dead, animam ago.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I am poor and needy; and therefore a very…
I am poor and needy; and therefore a very proper object for thy pity and help. I am wounded not slightly, but to the very heart with soul-piercing sorrows.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I am gone like the shadow when it declineth,....…
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth,.... When the sun is setting, and the shadow is going off; man's life is often compared to a shadow, because fleeting, momentary, and soon gone, Ch1 29:15 and death is expressed by going the way of all flesh; and by going to the grave, the house for all living, a man's long home, Jos 23:14 and so is the death of Christ, Luk 22:22, it may be rendered, "I am made to go" (h), denoting the violent death of Christ, who was cut off out of the land of the living, and whose life was taken away from the earth, Isa 53:8.
I am tossed up and down as the locust; or "shaken out" (i) by the wind, as the locust is by the east wind, and carried from place to place, Exo 10:13, or when a swarm of them by a strong wind are crowded together and thrown upon one another; or like the grasshopper, which leaps from hedge to hedge, and has no certain abode: and such was the case of Christ here on earth; and especially it may have respect not only to his being sometimes in Judea and sometimes in Galilee, sometimes in the temple and sometimes in the mount of Olives; but to his being tossed about after his apprehension, when he was led to Annas, and then to Caiaphas, then to Pilate, then to Herod, then delivered to the soldiers, and by them led to Calvary, and crucified.
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(h) "cogor abire", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius; "abire factus sum", Gejerus, Michaelis. (i) "excussus sum", Montanus, Vatablus Gejerus, Michaelis; "excutior", Tigurine version, Musculus, Cocceius.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. I am poor and needy] I am…
Verse 22. I am poor and needy] I am afflicted and impoverished; and my heart is wounded - my very life is sinking through distress.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For I am poor and needy - I am…
For I am poor and needy - I am helpless and dependent. I am in a condition where I need thy gracious interposition.
And my heart is wounded within me - I am as one that is prostrated by a weapon - as if my heart had been pierced. I have no courage, no strength. I am like one who lies wounded on a battlefield.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. I am poor and needy—A plaintive confession, often…
22. I am poor and needy—A plaintive confession, often made, and always urged as the counterpart of exclusive hope in God.
My heart is wounded—Pierced as with a sword. So the word, Eze_32:26. The adjective almost always has this sense, as Lam_2:12. In this pathetic strain the psalmist tells his misery and suffering in the three verses following.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. Cp. Psa_109:16; Psa_40:17; Psa_55:4.
22. Cp. Psa_109:16; Psa_40:17; Psa_55:4.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For I am poor and needy (comp. ver. 16).…
For I am poor and needy (comp. ver. 16). David was "poor and needy" both when hunted upon the mountains by Saul, and when forced to flee from Absalom. And my heart is wounded within me. The wound to David"s heart was, on the former occasion, from the malignity of Saul; on the latter, especially from the desertion of his "own familiar friend whom he trusted."
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 22. For I am poor and needy. When…
Ver. 22. For I am poor and needy. When he does plead anything about himself he urges not his riches or his merits, but his poverty and his necessities: this is gospel supplication, such as only the Spirit of God can indite upon the heart. This lowliness does not comport with the supposed vengeful spirit of the preceding verses: there must therefore be some interpretation of them which would make them suitable in the lips of a lowly minded man of God.
And my heart is wounded within me. The Lord has always a tender regard to broken hearted ones, and such the psalmist had become: the undeserved cruelty, the baseness, the slander of his remorseless enemies had pierced him to the soul, and this sad condition he pleads as a reason for speedy help. It is time for a friend to step in when the adversary cuts so deep. The case has become desperate without divine aid; now, therefore, is the Lord's time.
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Ver. 22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Note here, how beautifully he unites these arguments. He had said, Because Thy mercy is good; and he adds, "Because I am poor and needy." He could not have added anything more appropriate: for this is the nature of goodness and mercy, even in the human heart, much more in God, the best and most merciful of all beings, that nothing more easily moves it to give succour, than the affliction, calamity, and misery of those by whom it is invoked. Wolfgang Musculus.
Ver. 22. My heart is wounded within me. The hearts of the saints and pious men are not as brass or stone, that the apathy of the Stoics should have lodging in them, but are susceptible to griefs and passions. Musculus.
Ver. 22. The inward sorrows of a saint. Their cause, effects, consolations and cure.
Psalms 109:23*
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