Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like 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.
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.
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, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me. 23 As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust; 24 My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:
Cross References
Exodus 10:19
and Yahweh turned back a west wind strong exceedingly, and carried away the locust and cast it into the Red Sea, - there was not left a single locust in all the bounds of Egypt.
Exodus 10:13
And Moses stretched forth his staff over the land of Egypt, and, Yahweh, caused an east wind to drive through the land, all that day, and all the night, - when the morning, had come, the east wind, had brought the locust.
1 Chronicles 29:15
for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.
Job 14:2
As a flower, he cometh forth - and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalm 102:10-11
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath, For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalm 144:4
The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for a man throughout his life, for the number of the days of his life of vanity, seeing he will make them, like a shadow, - for who can tell a man, what shall be after him, under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:13
but, well, shall it not be to the lawless man, neither shall he lengthen out his days like a shadow, - because he standeth not in awe before God.
James 4:14
Men who are not versed in the morrow - of what sort your life will be ; for ye are, a vapour - for a little, appearing, then, just disappearing!