My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness, I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning. For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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