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Psalm 109:24

New American Bible - revised edition

My knees totter from fasting; my flesh has wasted away.

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My bones cling to my skin, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

They open their mouths against me, lions that rend and roar.

Because zeal for your house has consumed me, I am scorned by those who scorn you.

When I humbled my spirit with fasting, this led only to scorn.

He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.

in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.

So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.