Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
KJV
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
ASV
כְּ/צֵל כִּ/נְטוֹת֥/וֹ נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי כָּֽ/אַרְבֶּֽה
Hebrew
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
YLT
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַרְבֶּ֔ה
'rbh
noun · 24×
הוֹלֵ֣ךְ
hvlk
verb · 507×
יְנַעֵ֧ר
yn'r
verb · 11×
נָטִ֤יתִי
ntyty
verb · 216×
צֵ֥ל
tsl
noun · 49×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- Eccl 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this 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?
- Exod 10:19 — And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Ps 102:10 — Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
- Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- Ps 144:4 — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.