Psalms 109:22

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

"For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." - Psalms 109:22
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What does Psalms 109:22 mean?

The Bible verse Psalms 109:22 from the King James Version (KJV) states, "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." This passage is part of a longer psalm that is attributed to King David, a central figure in the Old Testament and the author of many of the…

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Wounded Hearts and the Riches of Grace

In our journey through life, we often encounter seasons marked by profound suffering and deep need. Psalm 109:22, "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me," captures this raw emotional state with sobering clarity. This verse, nestled within a prayer of David…

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A Prayer of the Poor and Needy

Heavenly Father, In this moment of quiet reflection, I approach Your throne of grace as declared in Psalms 109:22, which reminds us, "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." Lord, I come before You, recognizing my own spiritual, emotional, and physical…

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Psalms 109:22 - "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me."
Psalms 109:9 - "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Psalms 109:1 - "Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;"
Psalms 109:4 - "For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer."
Psalms 109:24 - "My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness."
Psalms 109:8 - "Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
Psalms 109:5 - "And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love."
Psalms 109:27 - "That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it."
Psalms 109:11 - "Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour."
Psalms 119:109 - "My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law."
Psalms 109:13 - "Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out."
Psalms 109:26 - "Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:"
Psalms 109:29 - "Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle."
Psalms 109:3 - "They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause."
Psalms 109:12 - "Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children."
Psalms 109:15 - "Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth."
Psalms 109:7 - "When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin."
Psalms 109:25 - "I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads."
Psalms 109:30 - "I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude."
Psalms 109:14 - "Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out."
Psalms 109:6 - "Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand."
Psalms 109:19 - "Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually."
Psalms 109:20 - "Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul."
"Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:" - Psalms 109:26
Psalms 109:23 - "I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust."
Psalms 109:2 - "For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue."
Psalms 109:31 - "For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul."
Psalms 109:10 - "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places."
"Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle." - Psalms 109:29