Psalms 109:22
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
BSB
ASV
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
KJV
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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:
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
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.
Through
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.
leads to
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?”
