Psalm 109:23

Good News Translation

Like an evening shadow I am about to vanish; I am blown away like an insect.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

You know, O Lord, that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

Job 14:2

We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are king forever; all generations will remember you.

Psalm 144:4

We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow.

Exodus 10:13

So Moses raised his stick, and the Lord caused a wind from the east to blow on the land all that day and all that night. By morning it had brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:19

And the Lord changed the east wind into a very strong west wind, which picked up the locusts and blew them into the Gulf of Suez. Not one locust was left in all of Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

How can anyone know what is best for us in this short, useless life of ours—a life that passes like a shadow? How can we know what will happen in the world after we die?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not go well for the wicked. Their life is like a shadow and they will die young, because they do not obey God.”

James 4:14

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.