Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Revised Version 1895
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 faileth of fatness.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19And the LORD turned an exceeding 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 cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalms 102:12But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; and thy memorial unto all generations.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
James 4:14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth 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 →