²² For I `am' poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

¹ A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I `am' poor and needy.

¹⁷ And I `am' poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer `art' Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

⁹ for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

²⁷ `Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;

⁴⁴ and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

²⁰ and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

³ He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

¹⁶ Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,

¹⁷ He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.

¹⁸ This is written for a later generation, And the people created do praise Jah.

¹⁹ For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,

²⁰ To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,

⁴ Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

¹⁵ I `am' afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

¹⁶ Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off,

⁶ And I `am' a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.

⁴ For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!

²⁷ And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her away, and the man of God saith, `Let her alone, for her soul `is' bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden `it' from me, and hath not declared `it' to me.'