Psalms 109:23

Psalms 109:23 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
• New International Version (NIV)I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

Context of Psalms 109:23

21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me; 22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness. 25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.

Psalms 109:23 word by word

כְּצֵל־כִּנְטוֹת֥וֹ נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

• goneהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
• shadowצֵלtsêl · shadowH6738
• downנָטָהnâţâh · to stretchH5186
• locustאַרְבֶּה'arbeh · locustH697

Cross-references for Psalms 109:23

• Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
• 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
• Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
• Ecclesiastes 6:12For 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?
• Ecclesiastes 8:13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
• James 4:14whereas 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.
• Psalms 102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
• Exodus 10:13And 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.

Commentaries on Psalms 109:23

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23I 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - See the notes at Psalm 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.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-31Verses 21-31 The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, while the soul prospers and is in health, than to have leanness in the soul, while the body is feasted. He was ridiculed and reproached by his enemies. But if God bless us, we need not care who curses us; for how can they curse whom God has not cursed…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23A lengthening shadow suggests a temporary, empty life (Psalms 102:11; 144:4). A single locust can be easily brushed off clothing.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. like the shadow--(Compare Psa 102:11). tossed up and down--or, "driven" (Ex 10:19).Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 109:23

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Prayer

In the dictionaries

• Decline
• God
• Psalms, Book of
• Shade; Shadow; Shadowing

Commentaries on Psalms 109

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings