'Fading' in the Bible
When the man got up to leave with his mistress and servant, his father-in-law, the young woman's father, told him, "Look now, evening is coming, so please spend another night. See how the daylight is fading, so spend the night here and enjoy yourself. Then tomorrow get up early and leave on your journey home."
Be gracious to me, LORD, because I am fading away. Heal me, because my body is distressed.
I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!
And that fading flower, his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, will be like an early fig before summer whenever someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it's in his hand.
A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won't snuff out. He'll bring forth justice for the truth.
"As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple.