New King James Version
Psalms 109:24
24My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
Psalms 109:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
- New International Version (NIV)My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.
Context of Psalms 109:24
22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. 23I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust. My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness. 25I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads. 26Help me, O Lord my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:24 word by word
בִּ֭רְכַּי כָּשְׁל֣וּ מִצּ֑וֹם וּ֝בְשָׂרִ֗י כָּחַ֥שׁ מִשָּֽׁמֶן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 109:24
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.
- Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart.
- Psalms 69:10When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach.
- Matthew 4:2And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
- 2 Corinthians 11:27in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—
- Hebrews 12:12Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.
- Psalms 102:4My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.
- Job 19:20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Commentaries on Psalms 109:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24My knees are weak through fasting - That hunger is as soon felt in weakening the knees, as in producing an uneasy sensation in the stomach, is known by all who have ever felt it. Writers in all countries have referred to this effect of hunger. Thus Tryphioderus Il. Excid. ver 155: ̈́ ͅ . "Their knees might fail, by hunger's force subdued; And sink, unable to sustain their load." Merrick. So Plautus, Curcul, act. ii., scen. 3: - Tenebrae oboriuntur, genua…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24My knees are weak through fasting - Hunger; want of food. Strength to stand is connected with firmness in the knee-joints, and hence, weakness and feebleness are denoted by the giving way of the knees. Compare Hebrews 12:12. And my flesh faileth of fatness - I am lean and weak. There is not the proper supply for my strength. The idea seems to have been that fatness (Hebrew, oil) was necessary to strength.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-31Verses 21-31 The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, while the soul prospers and is in health, than to have leanness in the soul, while the body is feasted. He was ridiculed and reproached by his enemies. But if God bless us, we need not care who curses us; for how can they curse whom God has not cursed…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21-25Feeling vulnerable and miserable, the psalmist asks his Lord for help. The accusations have crushed his spirit and drained his physical strength.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 24-2524-25. Taunts and reproaches aggravate his afflicted and feeble state (Psa 22:6, 7).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 109
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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