[A Prayer of David.] Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I {am} poor and needy. {A Prayer...: or, A Prayer, being a Psalm of David}

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

But I {am} a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

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.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul {is} vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid {it} from me, and hath not told me. {him...: Heb. by his feet} {vexed: Heb. bitter}

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air {have} nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay {his} head.

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

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.

A wholesome tongue {is} a tree of life: but perverseness therein {is} a breach in the spirit. {A wholesome...: Heb. The healing of the tongue}

But I {am} poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou {art} my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

But I {am} poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

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.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly {to them}.

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air {have} nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay {his} head.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man {that hath} no strength:

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?