Psalms 109:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.”
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BSBPD
“My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 109:24 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
- Psalms 69:10I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
- Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
- Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
- 2 Corinthians 11:27in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
- Hebrews 12:12Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
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