Psalms 109:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.”
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“I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 109:23 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:19And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Psalms 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
- Psalms 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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