Psalms 109:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 12:12 : 12 Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long. 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
  • Ps 35:13-14 : 13 When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food.(If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!) 14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.
  • Ps 38:5-8 : 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick. 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 69:10 : 10 I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.
  • Ps 102:4-5 : 4 My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food. 5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.
  • Matt 4:2 : 2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

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    10My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

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    3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

    4My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

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  • Ps 109:22-23
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    22For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me.

    23I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

  • Ps 109:25
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    25I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

  • Lam 3:4
    73%

    4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

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    10I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

  • Ps 73:26
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    26My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.

  • Ezek 7:17
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    17All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

  • Job 16:8
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    8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

  • Ps 6:2
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    2Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am frail! Heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking!

  • Ps 107:5
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    5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

  • Ps 38:6-8
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    6I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

    7For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.

    8I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

  • Ps 44:25
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    25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

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    71%

    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

  • Ps 119:28
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    23He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

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    3I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

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    24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

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  • Ps 143:4
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    70%

    20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

  • Ps 42:3
    70%

    3I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

  • Job 30:16-17
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    70%

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    17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

  • Job 7:5
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    5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

  • Ps 35:13
    70%

    13When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food.(If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)

  • Isa 40:30
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    30Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.

  • Job 30:3
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    3gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

  • Job 17:7
    70%

    7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

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    9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

  • Ps 107:18
    69%

    18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

  • Ps 143:6
    69%

    6I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.(Selah)