Psalm 109:23

ALL

Psalm 109:23

Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

King James Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Holman Bible

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;
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.

NET Bible

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

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.

Topics

Shadows

Time Passing

References

American

Locust

Hastings

Locust

Prayer

Plagues of Egypt

Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:23

Verse Info

Bible Rank: 31007
Psalm Rank: 2386
2 Topics
9 Cross References
1 Reading
4 References

Context Readings

²² For I am afflicted and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.
²⁴ My knees are weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Cross References

Exodus 10:19

So the Lord shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Exodus 10:13

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

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 14:2

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Psalm 102:10-11

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Jump To Previous

off shadow locust shaken passing lengthens

Jump To Next

off shadow locust shaken passing lengthens

Word Concordance

off shadow locust shaken passing lengthens