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My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
Psalms 109:24 · World English Bible
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 & the web

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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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 109:24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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