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Psalm 109:23

American Standard Version

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

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Psalm 109:23 in other translations

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

Psalm 109:23 · World English Bible

Psalm 109:23 in context

  1. 21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
  2. 22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
  3. 23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
  4. 24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
  5. 25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.