Devine Scripture

Psalms 109:23

Psalms chapter 109 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Context

v.22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

v.23This passage

v.24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

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.