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The Darby Translation

Psalms 109:22

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Poor and Needy;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I am suffering and needy;my heart is wounded within me.
Hebrew Names Version
For I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
King James Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
English Standard Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
New Century Version
I am poor and helpless and very sad.
New English Translation
For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me.
Amplified Bible
For I am suffering and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
New American Standard Bible
For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
World English Bible
For I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
Legacy Standard Bible
For I am afflicted and needy,And my heart is pierced within me.
Berean Standard Bible
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
Contemporary English Version
I am poor and helpless, and I have lost all hope.
Complete Jewish Bible
For I am poor and needy, and my heart within me is wounded.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am only a poor, helpless man. I am so sad; my heart is broken.
George Lamsa Translation
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
Good News Translation
I am poor and needy; I am hurt to the depths of my heart.
Lexham English Bible
for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Literal Translation
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I go hence like ye shadowe that departeth, and am dryuen awaye as ye greshoppers.
American Standard Version
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Bible in Basic English
For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
King James Version (1611)
For I am poore and needie: and my heart is wounded within me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Deliuer me, for truely I am afflicted: and I am poore, and my heart is wounded within me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.
English Revised Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Delyuere thou me, for Y am nedi and pore; and myn herte is disturblid with ynne me.
Update Bible Version
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded inside me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
New King James Version
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
New Living Translation
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is full of pain.
New Life Bible
For I am in trouble and in need. And my heart is hurt within me.
New Revised Standard
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-22) For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
Revised Standard Version
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
Young's Literal Translation
For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

Contextual Overview

21 But do *thou* for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me: 22 For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust; 24 My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness; 25 And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads. 26 Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy loving-kindness: 27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that *thou*, Jehovah, hast done it. 28 Let *them* curse, but bless *thou*; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice. 29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. 30 I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For I: Psalms 22:6, Psalms 40:17, Psalms 86:1, Psalms 102:17-20, Matthew 8:20, 2 Corinthians 8:9

and my: Psalms 109:16, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16, Psalms 102:4, 2 Kings 4:27, Job 6:4, Isaiah 53:3, Luke 22:44, John 12:27

Reciprocal: Job 24:12 - wounded Psalms 69:29 - I am poor Psalms 70:5 - I am Psalms 74:21 - O let not Psalms 88:4 - as a man Proverbs 15:4 - a breach Proverbs 18:14 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I am poor and needy,.... As he was in human nature, being born of poor parents, brought up in a mean manner, had not where to lay his head, and was ministered to by others; though he was Lord of all, and immensely rich in the perfections of his nature, and in his vast empire and dominion, and the revenues arising from thence; see 2 Corinthians 8:9. It may here chiefly respect his helpless and forlorn estate as man, at the time of his sufferings and death; see Psalms 40:17.

And my heart is wounded within me; with the sins of his people on him, with a sense of divine wrath, and when under divine desertions, especially when his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death,

Matthew 26:38.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:22. 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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