Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the 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.
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.
References
American
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
22 for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19
And LORD turned an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.
Exodus 10:13
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night, and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 14:2
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Psalm 102:10-11
because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
James 4:14
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--