Psalm 109:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am tossed aside like a crawling insect.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Job 14:2

We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

Psalm 102:12

Our LORD, you are King for ever and will always be famous.

Psalm 144:4

We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.

Exodus 10:13

Moses held out his walking stick, and the LORD sent an east wind that blew across Egypt the rest of the day and all that night. By morning, locusts

Exodus 10:19

Then the LORD sent a strong west wind that swept the locusts into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt,

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Life is short and meaningless, and it fades away like a shadow. Who knows what is best for us? Who knows what will happen after we are gone?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but no one who sins and rejects God will prosper or live very long.

James 4:14

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.