My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.Psalm 109:24 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleMy 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. 4: 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.
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knees
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the middle of my bowels.
Psalm 35:13,14 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting...
Psalm 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Hebrews 12:12 Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
my flesh
Psalm 32:3,4 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long...
Psalm 38:5-8 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness...
Psalm 102:4,5 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread...
Job 19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 109:24 Parallel Commentaries
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