Psalms 109:23
I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 troubled within me.
24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.
Job 14:2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
Psalms 102:12My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
James 4:14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
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 →