Psalms 109:23
Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.
Leeser Tanakh
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 poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply wounded within me.
24My knees stumble through fasting, and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19And the Lord turned a very strong west wind, which bore away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea; there was not left one locust in all the boundary of Egypt.
Job 14:2Like a flower he cometh forth, and is cut down: and he fleeth like a shadow, and remaineth not.
Psalms 102:12(102:13) But thou, O Lord, wilt sit enthroned for ever; and thy memorial is unto all generations.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his vain life, that he should spend them as a shadow? for who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
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 →