Psalms 109:24
My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
In Context
23I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
25I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.
Cross References
Psalms 22:14I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.
Psalms 35:13Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.
Psalms 69:10I wept and my soule fasted, but that was to my reproofe.
Psalms 102:4Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.
2 Corinthians 11:27In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in colde and in nakednesse.
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 →