Psalms 109:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:19 : 19 and Jehovah turneth a very strong sea wind, and it lifteth up the locust, and bloweth it into the Red Sea -- there hath not been left one locust in all the border of Egypt;
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
  • Ps 102:10-11 : 10 From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down. 11 My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 And Moses stretcheth out his rod against the land of Egypt, and Jehovah hath led an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; the morning hath been, and the east wind hath lifted up the locust.

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    11My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

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