Psalms 109:24
My knees have been feeble from fasting, || And my flesh has failed of fatness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
In Context
23I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, || I have been driven away as a locust.
25And I have been a reproach to them, || They see me, they shake their head.
Cross References
Psalms 22:14I have been poured out as waters, || And all my bones have separated themselves, || My heart has been like wax, || It is melted in the midst of My bowels.
Psalms 35:13And I—in their sickness my clothing [is] sackcloth, || I have humbled my soul with fastings, || And my prayer returns to my bosom.
Psalms 69:10And I weep in the fasting of my soul, || And it is for a reproach to me.
Psalms 102:4Struck as the herb, and withered, is my heart, || For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
2 Corinthians 11:27in laboriousness and painfulness, many times in watchings, in hunger and thirst, many times in fastings, 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 →