Psalm 109:23

New English Translation

I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Job 14:2

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, rule forever, and your reputation endures.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Exodus 10:13

So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

Exodus 10:19

and the Lord turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For no one knows what is best for a person during his life – during the few days of his fleeting life – for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

James 4:14

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.