Psalms 109:23
I think that my time to remain alive is short, like an evening shadow that will soon disappear [SIM]. I will be blown away like a locust/grasshopper is blown by the wind.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Exodus 10:19Then Yahweh changed the wind so that it blew strongly from the west, and it blew all the locusts into the Red Sea (OR, the Gulf of Suez). There was not one locust left anywhere in the country of Egypt.
Job 14:2We disappear quickly, like flowers that grow from the ground quickly and then wither and die [SIM]. We are like shadows that disappear when the sun stops shining.
Psalms 102:12But Yahweh, you are our king who rules [MTY] forever; people who are not yet born will remember you.
Ecclesiastes 6:12We live for only a short time; we disappear like [SIM] a shadow disappears in the sunlight. No one [RHQ] knows what is best for us while we are alive, and no one [RHQ] knows what will happen to us after we die [EUP].
James 4:14You should not talk like that, because you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you do not know how long you will live! Your life is short [MET], like a mist that appears for a short time and then disappears.
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 →