Psalms 109:23
What does Psalms 109:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 109:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Not available in this translation
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12
For 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 4:14
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Exodus 10:13
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:19
And Jehovah 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.
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