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The Song of the Slandered

Psalms 109:22

In 11 translations

BSB
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
KJV
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
WEB
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
ASV
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
LSV
For I [am] poor and needy, || And my heart has been pierced in my midst.
YLT
For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
DBY
For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
DRC108:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
GNV
Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
JPS
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
LXXE108:22
Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־עָנִ֣י וְאֶבְי֣וֹן אָנֹ֑כִי וְ֝לִבִּ֗י חָלַ֥ל בְּקִרְבִּֽי׃
LXX-Br108:22
Ῥῦσαί με ὅτι πτωχὸς καὶ πένης εἰμὶ ἐγὼ, καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τετάρακται ἐντός μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 86:1Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
  • Psalms 40:17But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
  • Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
  • John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
  • Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
  • 2 Kings 4:27When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me…
  • 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
  • Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
  • Matthew 8:20Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
  • Psalms 88:15–16From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
  • Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  • Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
  • Psalms 102:17–20He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer. Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD. For He looked down from the…
  • Psalms 109:16For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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