Psalm 109:24 {108:24}
Good News Translation
My knees are weak from lack of food; I am nothing but skin and bones.

New Revised Standard Version
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

Contemporary English Version
I have gone without eating, until my knees are weak, and my body is bony.

New American Bible
My knees totter from fasting; my flesh has wasted away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

knees

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 35:13,14 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom. . . .

Psalm 69:10 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.

Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

2 Corinthians 11:27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

my flesh

Psalm 32:3,4 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Psalm 38:5-8 My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness. . . .

Psalm 102:4,5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. . . .

Job 19:20 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts. 24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

Genesis 41:3
Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:

Job 16:8
But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

Psalm 109:23
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