Psalms 109:24
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
- KJV
- My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
- WEB
- My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
- ASV
- My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
- DARBY
- My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;
- BLB
- My knees wobble from fasting, and my flesh has failed of fatness.
- ÅB
- Mine knær vakler av faste, og mitt kjød svinner og er uten fedme.
- OTB
- Mine knær er svekket av faste,
Og min kropp har blitt mager, uten næring. - B1930
- Mine knær vakler av faste, og mitt kjød svinner og er uten fedme.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 32:3–4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Read in contextMatthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Read in contextPsalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Read in contextHebrews 12:12
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Read in contextPsalms 35:13–14
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Read in contextPsalms 69:10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Read in contextPsalms 38:5–8
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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