Psalm 109:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a 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 aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.

Exodus 10:13

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:19

The Lord changed the wind into 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 mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.