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Psalms 109:22

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

KJV

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

ASV

כִּֽי עָנִ֣י וְ/אֶבְי֣וֹן אָנֹ֑כִי וְ֝/לִבִּ֗/י חָלַ֥ל בְּ/קִרְבִּֽ/י

Hebrew

For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

YLT

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶבְי֑וֹן
'byvn
adjective · 59×
אָנֹכִ֖י
'nky
pronoun · 356×
וֹ
v
verb · 143×
וֹ
v
noun · 227×
י
y
noun · 591×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
עָנִ֣י
'ny
adjective · 77×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 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.
  • 2Kgs 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
  • Isa 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.
  • Job 6:4 — 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.
  • 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.
  • Luke 22:44 — 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.
  • Matt 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.
  • Prov 15:4 — A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • Ps 22:6 — But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
  • Ps 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.
  • Ps 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.
  • Ps 69:29 — But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
  • Ps 70:5 — 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 86:1 — Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
  • Ps 88:15 — I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
  • Ps 102:4 — My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
  • Ps 102:17 — He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
  • Ps 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.