My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
Parallel translations
- KJV My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
- BSB My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
- NKJV My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
- NASB My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
- NLT My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Heb 12:12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
- Matt 4:2When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
- Ps 38:5–8My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
- Ps 35:13–14But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- Ps 102:4–5My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
- 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
- Ps 69:10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
- Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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