22. For I am poor and needy. When he does plead anything about himself he urges not his riches or his merits, but his poverty and his necessities: this is Gospel supplication, such as only the Spirit of God can indite upon the heart. And my heart is wounded within me. The Lord has always a tender regard to broken-hearted ones, and such the psalmist had become: the undeserved cruelty, the baseness, the slander of his remorseless enemies had pierced him to the soul, and this sad condition he pleads as a reason for speedy help.
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