the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Psalms 109:24
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My knees are feeble from fasting,And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
My knees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse.
My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;
My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting. I have lost weight and become thin.
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.
I am become a rebuke vnto them, they loke vpo me and shake their heades.
My knees are unsteady from fasting; And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
I have gone without eating, until my knees are weak, and my body is bony.
My knees are weak from lack of food, my flesh wastes away for lack of nourishment.
My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh wastes away.
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.
My knees are weak from going without food. And my body has lost all its fat.
My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.
My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:
(108-24) My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
My knees buckle from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting, and I have grown thin.
My knees are weak from lack of food; I am nothing but skin and bones.
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body is emaciated.
Mi knees ben maad feble of fasting; and my fleische was chaungid for oile.
My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
knees: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Psalms 69:10, Matthew 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:27, Hebrews 12:12
my flesh: Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 38:5-8, Psalms 102:4, Psalms 102:5, Job 19:20
Reciprocal: Matthew 6:16 - when
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My knees are weak through fasting,..... Either voluntary or forced, through want of food or refreshment; this was verified in Christ, when he kneeled and prayed, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground; see Psalms 69:10.
And my flesh faileth of fatness; or "for want of oil" k; the radical moisture of his flesh being dried up like a potsherd, Psalms 22:15.
k משמן δι' ελαιον, Sept. "propter oleum", V. L. "propter defectum olei", Eth. Arab.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 109:24. My 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: -
Τειρομενου βαρυθειεν ατερπεΐ γουνατα λιμῳ.
"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 inedia succidunt.
"My eyes grow dim; my knees are weak with hunger."
And LUCRETIUS, lib. iv. ver. 950: -
Brachia, palpebraeque cadunt, poplitesque procumbunt.
"The arms, the eyelids fall; the knees give way." Both the knees and the sight are particularly affected by hunger.
