Psalms 109:24

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 12:12 : 12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 35:13-14 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns 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 day long. 7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
  • Ps 69:10 : 10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
  • Ps 102:4-5 : 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
  • Matt 4:2 : 2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

    4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

    5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • Ps 109:22-23
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    76%

    22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

    23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • 25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

  • 10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

  • 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

  • 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

  • 8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

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    2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

  • 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Ps 38:6-8
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    6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

    7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

    8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • 28 My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

  • 23 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

  • 82 My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

  • 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

  • 24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • 7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

  • 27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

  • 13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  • 20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • 20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

  • 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

  • Job 30:16-17
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    16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

    17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

  • 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

  • 30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

  • 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • 7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

  • 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

  • 18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

  • 6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.