23I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.


In Context

20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

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

24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Psalm 109:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.