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World English Bible

Psalms 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off as the locust.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Locust;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Caterpillar;   Insects;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Locust;   Plagues of Egypt;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Locust;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Locust;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Decline;   Shade;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Locust;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am brushed off like a locust.
English Revised Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Update Bible Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
New Century Version
I am dying like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
New English Translation
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
Webster's Bible Translation
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Amplified Bible
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades; I am shaken off like the locust.
English Standard Version
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I am takun awei as a schadowe, whanne it bowith awei; and Y am schakun awei as locustis.
Berean Standard Bible
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
Contemporary English Version
I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am tossed aside like a crawling insect.
American Standard Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Bible in Basic English
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
Complete Jewish Bible
Like a lengthening evening shadow, I am gone; I am shaken off like a locust.
Darby Translation
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
Easy-to-Read Version
I feel my life is over, fading like a shadow at day's end. I feel like a bug that someone brushed away.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.
King James Version (1611)
I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
New Life Bible
I am passing like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
New Revised Standard
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
George Lamsa Translation
I am bent like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Good News Translation
Like an evening shadow I am about to vanish; I am blown away like an insect.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-23) I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
Revised Standard Version
I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I passe away like a vading shadowe: and I am dryuen from place to place lyke the grashopper.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.
Christian Standard Bible®
I fade away like a lengthening shadow;I am shaken off like a locust.
Hebrew Names Version
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off as the arbeh.
King James Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Lexham English Bible
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
Literal Translation
As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
Young's Literal Translation
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My knees are weake thorow fastinge, my flesh is dried vp for want of fatnesse.
New American Standard Bible
I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.
New King James Version
I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am passing like a shadow when it is stretched out;I am shaken off like the locust.

Contextual Overview

21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, Because your lovingkindness is good, deliver me; 22 For I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. 25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head. 26 Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your lovingkindness; 27 That they may know that this is your hand; That you, Yahweh, have done it. 28 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, But your servant shall rejoice. 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. 30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gone: Psalms 102:11, Psalms 144:4, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Job 14:2, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, James 4:14

I am tossed: Psalms 102:10, Exodus 10:13, Exodus 10:19

Reciprocal: Job 7:4 - tossings Job 17:7 - shadow

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth,.... When the sun is setting, and the shadow is going off; man's life is often compared to a shadow, because fleeting, momentary, and soon gone,

1 Chronicles 29:15 and death is expressed by going the way of all flesh; and by going to the grave, the house for all living, a man's long home, Joshua 23:14 and so is the death of Christ, Luke 22:22, it may be rendered, "I am made to go" h, denoting the violent death of Christ, who was cut off out of the land of the living, and whose life was taken away from the earth, Isaiah 53:8.

I am tossed up and down as the locust; or "shaken out" i by the wind, as the locust is by the east wind, and carried from place to place,

Exodus 10:13, or when a swarm of them by a strong wind are crowded together and thrown upon one another; or like the grasshopper, which leaps from hedge to hedge, and has no certain abode: and such was the case of Christ here on earth; and especially it may have respect not only to his being sometimes in Judea and sometimes in Galilee, sometimes in the temple and sometimes in the mount of Olives; but to his being tossed about after his apprehension, when he was led to Annas, and then to Caiaphas, then to Pilate, then to Herod, then delivered to the soldiers, and by them led to Calvary, and crucified.

h נהלכתי "cogor abire", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius "abire factus sum", Gejerus, Michaelis. i נערתי "excussus sum", Montanus, Vatablus Gejerus, Michaelis; "excutior", Tigurine version, Musculus, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - See the notes at Psalms 102:11.

I am tossed up and down as the locust - Agitated, moved, driven about, as a cloud of locusts is by the wind. The meaning of the whole is, that he was frail and weak, and needed strength from on high.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:23. I am gone like the shadow — "I have walked like the declining shadow,"-I have passed my meridian of health and life; and as the sun is going below the horizon, so am I about to go under the earth.

I am tossed up and down as the locust. — When swarms of locusts take wing, and infest the countries in the east, if the wind happen to blow briskly, the swarms are agitated and driven upon each other, so as to appear to be heaved to and fro, or tossed up and down. Dr. Shaw, who has seen this, says it gives a lively idea of the comparisons of the psalmist.


 
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