Parallel Verses
NET Bible
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
New American Standard Bible
I am shaken off
King James Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Holman Bible
I am shaken off like a locust.
International Standard Version
I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
A Conservative Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
American Standard Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Amplified
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
Bible in Basic English
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
Darby Translation
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
Julia Smith Translation
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
King James 2000
I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
Modern King James verseion
As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.
New Heart English Bible
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
The Emphasized Bible
As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
Webster
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
World English Bible
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
References
American
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
22 For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me. 23 I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust. 24 I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
Cross References
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.
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!
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 102:10-11
because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.
Psalm 144:4
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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.