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.
For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
Deliver me, for I am needy and poor. The Lord calls himself poor, that he might console the poor. With men he was made poor, that no one of the poor might despair of salvation. And my heart is troubled within me. See what he says: And my heart is troubled within me. This is the same thing which he says elsewhere: "I was troubled, and did not speak." That I am troubled, belongs to a man: but to overcome the trouble and the anger, this belongs to great virtue.
Jerome· Homily 35, on Psalm 108, 420patristic
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 2Co 8:9. It may here chiefly respect his helpless and forlorn estate as man, at the time of his sufferings and death; see Psa 40:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 22. For I am poor and needy. When he does plead anything about himself he urges not his riches or his merits, but his poverty and his necessities: this is gospel supplication, such as only the Spirit of God can indite upon the heart. This lowliness does not comport with the supposed vengeful spirit of the preceding verses: there must therefore be some interpretation of them which would make them suitable in the lips of a lowly minded man of God. And my heart is wounded within me.
The walk8
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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.
leads to
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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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.
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This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
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A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
For 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.
When 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 and has not told me.”
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
Now 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.
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
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