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24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. …
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)David, having denounced God’s wrath against his enemies, here takes God’s comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting. I. He pours out his complaint before God concerning the low condition he was in, which, probably, gave advantage to his enemies to insult over him: “ I am poor and needy , and therefore a proper object of pity, and one that needs and craves thy help.” 1.…
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