SEV Biblia, Chapter 109:24
Mis rodillas están debilitadas a causa del ayuno, y mi carne desfallecida por falta de gordura.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 108:24
Verse 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 felt it. Writers in all countries have referred to this effect of hunger. Thus Tryphioderus Il. Excid. ver 1lv. ' teiromenou baruqeien aterpei gounata limw. "Their knees might fail, by hunger's force subdued; And sink, unable to sustain their load." MERRICK.
SO PLAUTUS, Curcul, act. ii., scen. 3: - Tenebrae oboriuntur, genua inedia succidunt.
"My eyes grow dim; my knees are weak with hunger." And LUCRETIUS, lib. iv. ver. 950: - Brachia, palpebraeque cadunt, poplitesque procumbunt.
"The arms, the eyelids fall; the knees give way." Both the knees and the sight are particularly affected by hunger.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 21-31 - The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humbl manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost wor away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, while the sou prospers and is in health, than to have leanness in the soul, while the body is feasted. He was ridiculed and reproached by his enemies. But in God bless us, we need not care who curses us; for how can they curs whom God has not cursed; nay, whom he has blessed? He pleads God' glory, and the honour of his name. Save me, not according to my merit for I pretend to none, but according to thy-mercy. He concludes with the joy of faith, in assurance that his present conflicts would end i triumphs. Let all that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him. Jesus, unjustly put to death, and no risen again, is an Advocate and Intercessor for his people, ever read to appear on their behalf against a corrupt world, and the grea accuser __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ברכי 1290 כשׁלו 3782 מצום 6685 ובשׂרי 1320 כחשׁ 3584 משׁמן׃ 8081
