Psalms 109:23

In 11 translations

BSB

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

KJV

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

WEB

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

ASV

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

LSV

I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, || I have been driven away as a locust.

YLT

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

DBY

I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

DRC108:23

I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

GNV

I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

JPS

I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.

LXXE108:23

I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

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WLC

כְּצֵל־כִּנְטוֹת֥וֹ נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃

LXX-Br108:23

Ὡσεὶ σκιὰ ἐν τῷ ἐκκλῖναι αὐτὴν ἀντανῃρέθην, ἐξετινάχθην ὡσεὶ ἀκρίδες.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Exodus 10:19And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
• Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
• 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Psalms 102:10–11because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside. My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
• Ecclesiastes 8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
• Exodus 10:13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
• James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

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