Psalms 109:24
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
In Context
23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
Cross References
Psalms 22:14They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.
Psalms 69:10For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms 102:4For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
2 Corinthians 11:27In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:22-31
Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. 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. 24 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: 27 That… Read the whole commentary →