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Psalms 109:23
Psalms 109:23 is verse 23 of Psalms chapter 109, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
King James Version
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.
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Psalms 109:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
22 For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
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.
Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
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.
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 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
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.
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.