Psalms 109:23
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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. My heart is wounded within me.
24My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19The LORD sent 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 borders of Egypt.
Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Psalms 102:12But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures 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 like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
James 4:14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then 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 →