Psalm 109:23

God's Word

I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

Job 14:2

He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, remain forever. You are remembered throughout every generation.

Psalm 144:4

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Exodus 10:13

Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:19

Then the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind. It picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who knows what may be good for mortals while they are alive, during the brief, pointless days they live? Mortals pass by like a shadow. Who will tell them about their future under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well for the wicked. They will not live any longer. Their lives are like shadows, because they don’t fear God.

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.