Psalms 109:23

WEB

²³I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

KJV

²³I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

BSB

²³I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

FBV

²³I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am like a locust that is shaken off.

Extra References

Exodus 10:19

¹⁹The LORD sent 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 borders of Egypt.

1 Chronicles 29:15

¹⁵For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Job 14:2

²He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Psalms 102:10-11

¹⁰because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away. ¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

James 4:14

¹⁴Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Exodus 10:13

¹³Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

¹²For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Psalms 144:4

⁴Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

¹³But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.