Psalms 109:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Heb 12:12 : 12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
Job 19:20 : 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {H5542}
Ps 35:13-14 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
Ps 38:5-8 : 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 69:10 : 10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.
Ps 102:4-5 : 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Matt 4:2 : 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
2 Cor 11:27 : 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 38:10
78%
10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ps 102:3-5
3 verses
77%
3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Ps 109:22-23
2 verses
76%
22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Ps 31:9-10
2 verses
75%
9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 22:14-15
2 verses
75%
14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Job 33:20-21
2 verses
75%
20So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
Ps 109:25
74%
25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.
Lam 3:4
73%
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Ps 69:10
73%
10When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.
Ps 73:26
72%
26My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
Ezek 7:17
72%
17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Job 16:8
72%
8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
Ps 6:2
72%
2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
Ps 107:5
72%
5Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Ps 38:6-8
3 verses
72%
6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 44:25
72%
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
Ps 102:11
71%
11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Ps 119:28
71%
28My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Ps 102:23
71%
23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.
Ps 119:82
71%
82Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
Ps 69:3
71%
3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Job 3:24
71%
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Ps 73:2
71%
2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.
Ps 143:4
71%
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Job 6:7
71%
7My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me.
Ps 32:3
71%
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Job 30:27
70%
27My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.
Lam 1:13
70%
13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Ps 27:2
70%
2When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Lam 1:20
70%
20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Job 19:20
70%
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Ps 42:3
70%
3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Job 30:16-17
2 verses
70%
16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 7:5
70%
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
Ps 35:13
70%
13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Isa 40:30
70%
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Job 30:3
70%
3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
Job 17:7
70%
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Ps 102:9
70%
9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Ps 107:18
69%
18Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.
Ps 143:6
69%
6I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. {H5542}