Psalms 109:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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 commonly from that loathing of meat, which was occasioned by his excessive sorrows and terrors. See Poole on "Psalms 58:8". Of fatness; or, for want of fatness. See the like Hebrew phrases Genesis 18:26 Jeremiah 48:45 Lamentations 4:9.

Psalms 109:24

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