Psalms 109:24
What meaning of the psalms 109:24 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 109:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness."
What does Psalms 109:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness."
Verse Psalms 109:24. _MY KNEES ARE WEAK THROUGH FASTING_] That _hunger_ is as soon felt in _weakening the knees_, as in producing an _uneasy_ _sensation in the stomach_, is known by all who have ever...
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 knees...
PSALM 109-113 Psalms 109 Christ in Humiliation _ 1. Despised and rejected (Psalms 109:1)_ 2. The rejectors and their fate (Psalms 109:6) 3. The Christ in His sorrow (Psalms 109:21) The five Psalms...
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. The Psalmist's distress in persecution; P...
PSALMS 109 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David, Rehearsing how His Enemies have Cursed him, Refers his Cause to Jehovah. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 109:1-5, The Psalmist Entreats Jehovah to speak up for him ag...
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 overwhelmed wit...
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 Epiphan...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ A MAN WITH TROUBLE PSALMS 109 JESUS SAID, "YOU WILL BE HAPPY WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT KIND TO YOU AND DO BAD THINGS TO YOU. YOU WILL BE HAPPY BECAUSE YOU LOVE ME, EVE...
FAILETH OF FATNESS. — Literally, _has failed me from fat, i.e.,_ has dwindled away....
בִּ֭רְכַּי כָּשְׁל֣וּ מִ צֹּ֑ום וּ֝ בְשָׂרִ֗י כָּחַ֥שׁ מִ שָּֽׁמֶן׃...
Psalms 109:1 THIS is the last and the most terrible of the imprecatory psalms. Its central portion (Psalms 109:6) consists of a series of wishes, addressed to God, for the heaping of all miseries on t...
THE DELIVERER OF THE NEEDY Psalms 109:17 This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between His teaching and that addressed to “them of old time,” especially on the point of forgiv...
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 si...
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....
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! and...
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 may regard...
Psalms 109. It is certain that this psalm applies to Judas; but we shall see, in reading it, that we cannot apply all of it exclusively to him. And this is a help to us, to understand the way in which...
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 dro...
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, t...
_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...
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 ow...
21-31 The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, whil...
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 co...
Psalms 109:24 knees H1290 weak H3782 (H8804) fasting H6685 flesh H1320 feeble H3584 (H8804) fatness H8081 knees - Psalms 22:14, Psalms 35:13-14, Psalms 69:10; Matthew 4:2;...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and appeal to the righteous God for judgment. CHARACTERS: God, David, Satan. CONCLUSION: When enemies are spiteful and malicious, it is the unspeakable c...
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 Doëg...
_Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise._ A SONG OF IMPRECATION I. The misdeeds of the wicked (Psalms 109:1). II. The imprecation of wrath (verses 6-20). III. The cry for mercy (Psalms 109:21). “T...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:1. This is an individual lament. A faithful Israelite is being attacked in return for the good he has done to his attackers (vv. Psalms 109:1). He prays that his accuser...
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 O...
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 especially agai...
Psa 109:1-31 makes me glad that I'm not an enemy of David. For this is one of those psalms where he really takes off again against his enemies, and I mean he goes after them with tongs. Hold not thy...
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