English Standard Version
Psalms 109:23
23I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am brushed off like a locust.
Context of Psalms 109:23
21But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. 24My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat. 25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:23 word by word
כְּצֵל־כִּנְטוֹת֥וֹ נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 109:23
- Psalms 102:11My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
- Job 14:2He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 8:13But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
- James 4:14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
- Psalms 102:10because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.
- Exodus 10:13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had 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
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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
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