Psalm 109:23 “I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a loc…”

Psalm 109:23

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

World English Bible

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

American Standard Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Geneva Bible 1599

I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

Darby Translation

I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

Young's Literal Translation

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

Bible in Basic English

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

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Cross references

“gone”

1 Chronicles 29:15 Job 14:2 Psalm 144:4 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 8:13 James 4:14

1 Chronicles 29:15 · BSB

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 14:2 · BSB

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Psalm 144:4 · BSB

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · BSB

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13 · BSB

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

James 4:14 · BSB

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

“I am tossed”

Exodus 10:19 Exodus 10:13 Psalm 102:10

Exodus 10:19 · BSB

And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

Exodus 10:13 · BSB

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

Psalm 102:10 · BSB

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

24My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

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