Psalm 109:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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)

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Common English Bible

²³ 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 were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Job 14:2

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Exodus 10:13

And 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 brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:19

And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.