For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer. Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord: that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the Lord looked at the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,
My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
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