Psalm 109:22 KJV

Psalms · chapter 109 · verse 22

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.Psalm 109:22 · King James Version

Psalm 109:22 in context

20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

David, having denounced God's wrath against his enemies, here takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting. I.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-31