Psalms 109:22

Easy-to-Read Version

I am only a poor, helpless man. I am so sad; my heart is broken.

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.

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

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 My Lord God , treat me in a way that brings honor to your name. Save me because of your faithful love. ²² I am only a poor, helpless man. I am so sad; my heart is broken. ²³ I feel my life is over, fading like a shadow at day's end. I feel like a bug that someone brushed away. ²⁴ My knees are weak from fasting. I have lost weight and become thin. ²⁵ My enemies insult me. They look at me and shake their heads. ²⁶ Lord my God, help me! Show your faithful love and save me! ²⁷ Then they will know that you did it. They will know that it was your power, Lord , that helped me. ²⁸ They curse me, but you can bless me. They attacked me, so defeat them. Then I, your servant, will be happy. ²⁹ Humiliate my enemies! Let them wear their shame like a coat. ³⁰ I give thanks to the Lord . I praise him in front of everyone.

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.