Psalms 109:23

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.

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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.
DARBY
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
BLB
Like a shadow in its lengthening, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
ÅB
Som en skygge, når den heller, farer jeg avsted; jeg blir jaget bort som en gresshoppe.
OTB
Jeg svinner hen som en skygge som forlenges;
Jeg blir kastet til side som gresshoppen.
B1930
Som en skygge, når den heller, farer jeg avsted; jeg blir jaget bort som en gresshoppe.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 10:19

    And 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.

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  • Job 14:2

    Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

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  • 1 Chronicles 29:15

    For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

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  • Psalms 102:10–11

    because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

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  • Psalms 144:4

    Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

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  • Exodus 10:13

    So 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.

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  • Ecclesiastes 6:12

    For 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?

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  • Ecclesiastes 8:13

    Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

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