Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
In Context
22for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
24My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19And LORD turned 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 border of Egypt.
Job 14:2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Psalms 102:12But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
James 4:14men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:22-31
Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 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. 23 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. 26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 27 That… Read the whole commentary →