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Psalm 109:23

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109:23I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day;42

I am shaken off like a locust.

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Footnotes

  1. 42 Heb “like a shadow when it is extended I go.” He is like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I am gone like a shadow at evening;

I am shaken off like a locust.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I fade away like an evening shadow;

I am shaken off like a locust.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;

I am shaken off like a locust.

NLTNew Living Translation

I am fading like a shadow at dusk;

I am brushed off like a locust.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away;

I am shaken off like a locust.

KJV 1900King James Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:

I am tossed up and down as the locust.