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World English Bible

Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Fasting;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fasting;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knee, Kneel;   Prayer;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fatness;   Feeble Knees;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.
English Revised Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Update Bible Version
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.
New Century Version
My knees are weak from fasting, and I have grown thin.
New English Translation
I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
Webster's Bible Translation
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Amplified Bible
My knees are unsteady from fasting; And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.
English Standard Version
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi knees ben maad feble of fasting; and my fleische was chaungid for oile.
Berean Standard Bible
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
Contemporary English Version
I have gone without eating, until my knees are weak, and my body is bony.
American Standard Version
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
Bible in Basic English
My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.
Complete Jewish Bible
My knees are weak from lack of food, my flesh wastes away for lack of nourishment.
Darby Translation
My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;
Easy-to-Read Version
My knees are weak from fasting. I have lost weight and become thin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
King James Version (1611)
My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.
New Life Bible
My knees are weak from going without food. And my body has lost all its fat.
New Revised Standard
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.
George Lamsa Translation
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh wastes away.
Good News Translation
My knees are weak from lack of food; I am nothing but skin and bones.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-24) My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
Revised Standard Version
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My knees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil.
Christian Standard Bible®
My knees are weak from fasting,and my body is emaciated.
Hebrew Names Version
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Lexham English Bible
My knees buckle from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.
Literal Translation
My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.
Young's Literal Translation
My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am become a rebuke vnto them, they loke vpo me and shake their heades.
New American Standard Bible
My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
New King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
Legacy Standard Bible
My knees are feeble from fasting,And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Contextual Overview

21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, Because your lovingkindness is good, deliver me; 22 For I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. 25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head. 26 Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your lovingkindness; 27 That they may know that this is your hand; That you, Yahweh, have done it. 28 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, But your servant shall rejoice. 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. 30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

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.


 
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