Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
KJV
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
ASV
בִּ֭רְכַּ/י כָּשְׁל֣וּ מִ/צּ֑וֹם וּ֝/בְשָׂרִ֗/י כָּחַ֥שׁ מִ/שָּֽׁמֶן
Hebrew
My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
YLT
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
ו
v
noun · 26×
וֹ
v
noun · 269×
יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ
ykshlv
verb · 64×
כִּחֵ֖שׁ
kchsh
verb · 20×
צ֣וֹם
tsvm
noun · 26×
שֶּׁ֖מֶן
shmn
noun · 191×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- Heb 12:12 — Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
- Job 16:8 — And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
- Job 19:20 — My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Matt 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Matt 6:16 — Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
- Ps 22:14 — I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- Ps 35:13 — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- Ps 38:5 — My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- Ps 69:10 — When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- Ps 69:10 — When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- Ps 102:4 — My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.