Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
BSB
ASV
My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
KJV
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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 drops of blood falling to the ground; see Psa 69:10. And my flesh faileth of fatness; or "for want of oil" (k); the radical moisture of his flesh being dried up like a potsherd, Psa 22:15. (k) משמן δι' ελαιον, Sept. "propter oleum", V. L. "propter defectum olei", Eth. Arab.
My knees are weak through fasting; either religious fasting, to which he resorted in the dire extremity of his grief, or else through loss of appetite occasioned by distress of mind. Who can eat when every morsel is soured by envy? This is the advantage of the slanderer, that he feels nothing himself, while his sensitive victim can scarcely eat a morsel of bread because of his sensitiveness. However, the good God knoweth all this, and will succour his afflicted. The Lord who bids us confirm the feeble knees will assuredly do it himself. "And my flesh faileth of fatness."
The walk8
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Through
Hebrews 12:12Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
leads to
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
Through
Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
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Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you…
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
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