“ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. ”
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...
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh (n) faileth of fatness. (n) For hunger that came from sorrow, he was lean and his natural moisture failed him.
CIX. A Psalm of Cursing. This Ps. is further than anything else in the whole Psalter from the spirit of Christianity. It falls into three parts: Psalms 109:1-5 . The Psalmist's distress in persecu...
24 My knees are become feeble. Though David had the necessaries of life, yet he emaciated himself by voluntary abstinence, to which, as well as to prayer, he gave himself, and therefore we m...
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. My knees are weak through fasting - That hunger is as soon felt in weakening the knees, as in producing an uneasy sensation in the...
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. My knees are weak through fasting - not fasting from want of appetite, but the fasting which is practiced by men overwhelme...
The strongest of the imprecatory Pss. (see Intro.). Probably it is just to regard the Psalmist as speaking in the name of the whole nation, vexed and harried by foreign enemies, e.g. Antiochus Epipha...
Faileth of fatness. — Literally, has failed me from fat, i.e., has dwindled away.
Psalms 109:1-31 THIS is the last and the most terrible of the imprecatory psalms. Its central portion ( Psalms 109:6-20 ) consists of a series of wishes, addressed to God, for the heaping of all m...
the Deliverer of the Needy Psalms 109:17-31 This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between His teaching and that addressed to “them of old time,” especially on the point o...
This is a psalm full of interest. The singer is in a place of terrible suffering due to the implacable hostility of his foes. The passage containing the imprecations (vv. Psa 109:6-19) contains the s...
Here we have the blessed Jesus, in his human nature addressing the Father, as in the days of his flesh. How very interesting to his people are those cries! How impossible but to take part in them! an...
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...
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. Ver. 24. My knees are weak through fasting ] Either for lack of meat or stomach to it; genua labant, my knees buckle under me,...
My knees are weak through fasting Either through forced fasting for want of food, when he was persecuted, or for want of appetite when he was sick, or through voluntary fasting, which the frequency...
Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 21 But do thou for me, O G OD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy i...
Through fasting; either with voluntary fasts, to which the frequency and long continuance of my calamities obliged me; or with forced fasts, sometimes through want of necessary provisions, but most...
INTRODUCTION “This,” says Perowne, “is the last of the Psalms of imprecation, and completes the terrible climax. In the awfulness of its anathemas, the Psalm surpasses everything of the kind in the...
Psalms 109:6 . Set thou a wicked man over him. This cannot apply to Ahithophel; he was already his own executioner. Let Satan, that is, an adversary, stand at his right hand, to accuse him, as D...
Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise. A song of imprecation I. The misdeeds of the wicked ( Psalms 109:1-5 ). II. The imprecation of wrath (verses 6-20). III. The cry for mercy ( Psalms...
EXPOSITION THE title of this psalm—"To the chief musician, a psalm of David"—is thought to be not inappropriate. We may have here David's own appeal to God against his persecutors, and especia...
Lament of the Righteous Against Traitors and Enemies. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of worship, a psalm of David, in which he indeed may have reference to conditions of his...
2 Corinthians 11:27 ; Hebrews 12:12 ; Job 19:20 ; Matthew 4:2 ; Psalms 102:4 ; Psalms 102:5 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 32:4 ; Psalms 35:13 ; Psalms 35:14 ; Psalms 38:5-8 ; Psa...