“For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.”
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like an insect. The metaphors of fading ('shadow at evening') and insignificance ('shaken off like an insect') suggest the speaker's sense of diminishment and powerlessness. The comparison to an insect indicates utter insignificance. This verse expresses the speaker's self-perceived worthlessness and marginality.
Church Fathers on Psalms 109:22
1. Every one who faithfully reads the Acts of the Apostles, acknowledges that this Psalm contains a prophecy of Christ; for it evidently appears that what is here written, “let his days be few, and let another take his office,” is prophesied of Judas, the betrayer of Christ....For as some things are said which seem peculiarly to apply to the Apostle Peter, and yet are not clear in their meaning, unless when referred to the Church, whom he is acknowledged to have figuratively…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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