Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
New American Standard Bible
I am shaken off
King James Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Holman Bible
I am shaken off like a locust.
International Standard Version
I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
A Conservative Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
American Standard Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Amplified
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like 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.
Darby Translation
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
King James 2000
I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
Modern King James verseion
As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.
NET Bible
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
New Heart English Bible
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
The Emphasized Bible
As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
Webster
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
World English Bible
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
References
American
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
22 For poor and needy am I, and my heart wounded in my midst. 23 As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust. 24 My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness.
Cross References
Exodus 10:19
And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt
Exodus 10:13
And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Job 14:2
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
Psalm 102:10-11
From the face of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou didst lift me up and thou wilt cast me down.
Psalm 144:4
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:13
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
James 4:14
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)