Psalms 109:24

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 109:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My knees are weak through fasting - Hunger; want of food. Strength to stand is connected with firmness in the knee-joints, and hence, weakness an...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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: P...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

24 My knees are become feeble. Though David had the necessaries of life, yet he emaciated himself by voluntary abstinence, to which, as well...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. My knees are weak through fasting - not fasting from want of appetite, bu...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Faileth of fatness. — Literally, has failed me from fat, i.e., has dwindled away.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Deliverer of the Needy Psalms 109:17-31 This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between His teaching and that addresse...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My knees are weak through fasting ,..... Either voluntary or forced, through want of food or refreshment; this was verified in Christ, when he kneel...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 stomac...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 21 But do thou for me, O G OD t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Through fasting; either with voluntary fasts, to which the frequency and long continuance of my calamities obliged me; or with forced fasts, someti...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This,” says Perowne, “is the last of the Psalms of imprecation, and completes the terrible climax. In the awfulness of its anathemas,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 adver...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

My knees are weak through fasting, His deep grief causing Him to loath all food; and My flesh faileth of fatness, emaciation following deep and sus...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 109:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 109:24