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22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)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. He pours out his complaint before God concerning the low condition he was in, which, probably, gave advantage to his enemies to insult over him: “ I am poor and needy , and therefore a proper object of pity, and one that needs and craves thy help.” 1.…
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