22 Because I am poor and needy, and mine heart is wounded within me.

23 I depart like the shadow that declineth, and am shaken off as the [a]grasshopper.

24 My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh [b]hath lost all fatness.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:23 Meaning, that he hath no stay nor assurance in this world.
  2. Psalm 109:24 For hunger, that came of sorrow, he was lean, and his natural moisture failed him.

22 For I am poor and needy,
    and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
    I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees give(B) way from fasting;(C)
    my body is thin and gaunt.(D)

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