Psalms 109:24

109:24 I am so starved my knees shake; ¹ 

I have turned into skin and bones. ² 

Psalms 84:2

84:2 I desperately want to be ³ 

in the courts of the Lord’s temple. ⁴ 

My heart and my entire being ⁵  shout for joy

to the living God.

[109:24]  ¹ tn Heb “my knees stagger from fasting.”

[109:24]  ² tn Heb “and my flesh is lean away from fatness [i.e., “lean so as not to be fat”].”

[84:2]  ³ tn Heb “my soul longs, it even pines for.”

[84:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the courts of the Lord” (see Ps 65:4).

[84:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “my flesh,” which stands for his whole person and being.