Psalms 109:23

²¹ But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵ I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

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

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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.

Exodus 10:19
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
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Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
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Psalms 102:10–11
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
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Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Exodus 10:13
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
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Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
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