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Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109:23 · King James Version

In other versions

  • I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

    ASV

  • I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

    BBE

  • I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

    DBY

  • I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

    WEB

  • As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

    YLT

  • I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

    ENG

  • I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

    WBT

  • I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

    BSB

In context

21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23I 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 became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

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