Psalms 109:23

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I am fading away like a shadow at sunset; I am shaken off like a locust.

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  • Exod 10:19 : 19 And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which carried the locusts into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.
  • Ps 102:10-11 : 10 For I eat ashes as my food and mix my drink with tears. 11 Because of your wrath and indignation, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and night. By morning, the wind had brought the locusts.

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