Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; 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.
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 Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust. 24 My knees {buckle} from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19
And Yahweh turned a very strong {west wind} and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the {Red Sea}, and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
Exodus 10:13
And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind into the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought the locusts.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Job 14:2
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
Psalm 102:10-11
because of your indignation and anger, for you have picked me up and thrown me away.
Psalm 144:4
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
James 4:14
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.