Psalms 109:24
My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
In Context
23As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
25And I — I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.
Cross References
Psalms 22:14As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath 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 with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.
Psalms 69:10And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.
Psalms 102:4Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
2 Corinthians 11:27in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, 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 →