Psalm 109:23 - The Scriptures 2009

²³ I have gone like a lengthening shadow, I have been driven away 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 sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Exodus 10:13

And Mosheh stretched out his rod over the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:19

And יהוה turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left within all the border of Mitsrayim.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.

James 4:14

when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –