Psalm 109:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Like a lengthening shadow I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Job 14:2

Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Psalm 102:12

My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither like the grass.

Psalm 144:4

Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Exodus 10:13

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

Exodus 10:19

and the Lord caused the wind to shift to a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts and hurled them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained within the whole territory of Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

and that it shall not be well with the wicked, who shall not prolong their shadowy days, for their lack of reverence toward God.

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.