²¹ O Lord Jehovah, deal with me out of the goodness of your name. Rescue me because of your loving kindness. ²² For I am afflicted and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.

Phrases

Deliver Me

I Am He

In Me

Poor and Needy

Cross References

Psalm 40:17

I am oppressed and needy. May Jehovah think of me. You are my help and my salvation. O my God, do not delay!

Psalm 86:1

([Prayer by David]) Listen to me, O Jehovah. Answer me, for I am oppressed and needy.

2 Kings 4:27

but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away. Elisha said: Do not bother her. You can see she is deeply distressed. Jehovah has not told me a thing about it.

Job 6:4

The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.

Psalm 22:6

Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people.

Psalm 88:15-16

Ever since I was young, I have been suffering and near death. I have endured your terrors, and now I am in despair.

Psalm 102:4

My heart has been stricken like grass and has withered away. In fact I forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 102:17-20

He has respected the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

Psalm 109:16

for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much.

Matthew 8:20

Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

Luke 22:44

(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

John 12:27

I am troubled! What should I say? Father, save me out of this hour? It is for this purpose that I came to this hour! (Hebrews 5:7)

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.