Psalms 109:24

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My knees are weak from fasting,and my body is emaciated.

Hebrew Names Version
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

English Standard Version
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.

New Century Version
My knees are weak from fasting, and I have grown thin.

New English Translation
I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

Amplified Bible
My knees are unsteady from fasting; And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.

New American Standard Bible
My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

World English Bible
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.

Legacy Standard Bible
My knees are feeble from fasting,And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Berean Standard Bible
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
My knees are weak from lack of food, my flesh wastes away for lack of nourishment.

Darby Translation
My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;

Easy-to-Read Version
My knees are weak from fasting. I have lost weight and become thin.

George Lamsa Translation
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh wastes away.

Good News Translation
My knees are weak from lack of food; I am nothing but skin and bones.

Lexham English Bible
My knees buckle from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.

Literal Translation
My knees stumble from fasting, and my flesh grows lean from fatness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am become a rebuke vnto them, they loke vpo me and shake their heades.

American Standard Version
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

Bible in Basic English
My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.

King James Version (1611)
My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My knees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil.

English Revised Version
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi knees ben maad feble of fasting; and my fleische was chaungid for oile.

Update Bible Version
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.

Webster's Bible Translation
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

New King James Version
My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

New Living Translation
My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.

New Life Bible
My knees are weak from going without food. And my body has lost all its fat.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-24) My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

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

Young's Literal Translation
My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Contextual Overview

²¹ But, thou, Yahweh, Adonay, deal effectually with me, for the sake of thy Name, Since good is thy lovingkindness, O rescue me; ²² For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me. ²³ As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust; ²⁴ My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness: ²⁵ So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head. ²⁶ Help me! O Yahweh my God, Save me, according to thy lovingkindness: ²⁷ That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it. ²⁸ They, may curse if, thou, wilt bless, - Mine assailants, shall be ashamed, but, thy servant, shall rejoice; ²⁹ Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame. ³⁰ I will thank Yahweh loudly with my mouth, Yea, in the midst of multitudes, will I praise him;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knees: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Psalms 69:10, Matthew 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:27, Hebrews 12:12

my flesh: Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 38:5-8, Psalms 102:4, Psalms 102:5, Job 19:20

Reciprocal: Matthew 6:16 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My knees are weak through fasting,..... Either voluntary or forced, through want of food or refreshment; this was verified in Christ, when he kneeled and prayed, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground; see Psalms 69:10.

And my flesh faileth of fatness; or "for want of oil" k; the radical moisture of his flesh being dried up like a potsherd, Psalms 22:15.

k משמן δι' ελαιον, Sept. "propter oleum", V. L. "propter defectum olei", Eth. Arab.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My knees are weak through fasting - Hunger; want of food. Strength to stand is connected with firmness in the knee-joints, and hence, weakness and feebleness are denoted by the giving way of the knees. Compare Hebrews 12:12.

And my flesh faileth of fatness - I am lean and weak. There is not the proper supply for my strength. The idea seems to have been that fatness (Hebrew, oil) was necessary to strength.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:24. My knees are weak through fasting — That hunger is as soon felt in weakening the knees, as in producing an uneasy sensation in the stomach, is known by all who have ever felt it. Writers in all countries have referred to this effect of hunger. Thus Tryphioderus Il. Excid. ver 155: -

Τειρομενου βαρυθειεν ατερπεΐ γουνατα λιμῳ.

"Their knees might fail, by hunger's force subdued;

And sink, unable to sustain their load."

MERRICK.

SO PLAUTUS, Curcul, act. ii., scen. 3: -

Tenebrae oboriuntur, genua inedia succidunt.

"My eyes grow dim; my knees are weak with hunger."

And LUCRETIUS, lib. iv. ver. 950: -

Brachia, palpebraeque cadunt, poplitesque procumbunt.

"The arms, the eyelids fall; the knees give way." Both the knees and the sight are particularly affected by hunger.