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for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:22 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
  • BSB For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
  • NKJV For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
  • NASB For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
  • NLT For I am poor and needy, and my heart is full of pain.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 14

  • Ps 86:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
  • Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
  • Ps 102:4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27When 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.”
  • 2 Cor 8:9For 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.
  • Ps 22:6But 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 for this cause I came to this time.
  • Ps 109:16because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
  • Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
  • Ps 102:17–20He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
  • Matt 8:20Jesus 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.”
  • Ps 88:15–16I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
  • Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
  • Isa 53:3He 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.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 109:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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