Salmos 109:23

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Voime como la sombra cuando declina; Soy sacudido como langosta.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Voy pasando como sombra que se alarga; soy sacudido como la langosta.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Me voy como la sombra cuando declina; soy sacudido como langosta.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Como la sombra cuando declina me voy; soy arrebatado del viento como langosta.

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.