Psalm 109:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Like a lengthening shadow, I’m passing away; I’m shaken off, like some locust.

Psalm 109:23 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

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

Exodus 10:13

So Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:19

And the Lord turned a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.