Psalm 109:23

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Summary

Psalm 109:23

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

Gone

James 4:14

I am tossed

Psalm 102:10

Exodus 10:13

Bible References

Gone

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

He blossoms like a flower, then withers;
he flees like a shadow and does not last.

For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

I am tossed

because of Your indignation and wrath;
for You have picked me up and thrown me aside.

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.