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Psalm 109:24–25

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109:24I am so starved my knees shake;43

I have turned into skin and bones.44

109:25I am disdained by them.45

When they see me, they shake their heads.46

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Footnotes

  1. 43 Heb “my knees stagger from fasting.”
  2. 44 Heb “and my flesh is lean away from fatness [i.e., “lean so as not to be fat”].”
  3. 45 Heb “as for me, I am a reproach to them.”
  4. 46 They shake their heads. Apparently shaking the head was a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 22:7; Lam 2:15.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

My knees are weak through fasting;

my body has become gaunt, with no fat.

I am an object of scorn to my accusers;

when they see me, they wag their heads.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

My knees give way from fasting;

my body is thin and gaunt.

I am an object of scorn to my accusers;

when they see me, they shake their heads.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My knees are weak from fasting,

and my body is emaciated.

I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;

when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

NLTNew Living Translation

My knees are weak from fasting,

and I am skin and bones.

I am a joke to people everywhere;

when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My knees buckle from fasting,

and my body grows lean without fat.

And so I am a disgrace to them;

when they see me, they shake their heads.

KJV 1900King James Version

My knees are weak through fasting;

And my flesh faileth of fatness.

I became also a reproach unto them:

When they looked upon me they shaked their heads.