My knees totter from fasting, and my flesh is lean, with no fat.
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble!
After He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
They open wide their mouths against me, like a tearing, roaring lion.
in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
For zeal for Your House consumed me— the insults of those who insulted You have fallen on me.
My bones cling to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
When I wept and fasted— that became a reproach to me.