Psalms 109:23
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath been pierced in my midst.
24My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19and Jehovah turneth a very strong sea wind, and it lifteth up the locust, and bloweth it into the Red Sea — there hath not been left one locust in all the border of Egypt;
Job 14:2As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Psalms 102:12And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to all generations.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what [is] good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
James 4:14who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
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 →