Psalms 109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 109 connects to 10 cross-references. A lament of David against a vicious adversary who persecutes him with lies and repays evil for good. The notorious imprecatory section asks for the accuser's condemnation, shortened life, fatherless children, and wandering poverty. David appeals to God's steadfast love …
Other Translations
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
For I <FI>am<Fi> poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
Cross References
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi …
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it …
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood …
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he …
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay …
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.