Psalms 109 · Verse 22

Psalms 109:22

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:22, King James Version

Psalms 109:22 in other translations

BSBFor I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
WEBfor I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
ASVFor I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
YLTFor I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
DARBYFor I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
BBEFor I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
WebsterFor I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

What does Psalms 109:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 109:21-22

21-22. do ... for me--that is, kindness. wounded--literally, "pierced" (Psa 69:16, 29).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 I am poor and needy - I am allicted and impoverished; and my heart is wounded - my very life is sinking through distress.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 109:21-31

The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, while the soul prospers and is in health, than to have leanness in the soul, while the body is feasted. He was ridiculed and reproached by his enemies. But if God bless us, we need not care who curses us; for how can they curse…

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Psalms 109:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
עָנִ֣י'a.Ni[am] poorH6041
וְאֶבְי֣וֹןve.'ev.Yonand needyH34
אָנֹ֑כִי'a.No.khiIH595
וְ֝לִבִּ֗יve.li.Biand heart myH3820
חָלַ֥לcha.Lalsomeone has piercedH2490
בְּקִרְבִּֽי\׃be.kir.Biin inner being myH7130

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 109:22

  • Psalms 40:17

    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.

  • Psalms 86:1

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

  • Psalms 102:4

    My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:9

    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.

  • Psalms 22:6

    But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

  • 2 Kings 4:27

    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.

  • John 12:27

    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.

  • Psalms 102:17-20

    He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

  • Isaiah 53:3

    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.

  • Psalms 109:16

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

  • Matthew 8:20

    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.

  • Psalms 88:15-16

    I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I.
22:6; 40:17; 86:1; 102:17-20; Mt 8:20; 2Co 8:9
and my.
16; 88:15,16; 102:4; 2Ki 4:27; Job 6:4; Isa 53:3; Lu 22:44
Joh 12:27

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Context

  • Psalms 109:21

    But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

  • Psalms 109:22

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

  • Psalms 109:23

    I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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Psalms 109:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque yo estoy afligido y necesitado; y mi corazón está herido dentro de mí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car je suis affligé et pauvre, et mon cœur est blessé au-dedans de moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn ich, ich bin elend und arm, und mein Herz ist verwundet in meinem Innern.