Psalms 109:23
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
BSB
ASV
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
KJV
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
I am shaken off like locusts. I indeed had come to protect my people, and I said: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often did I wish to gather your children as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings." I had come like a hen to protect them: but they received me with a most hostile mind. I had come as a mother: and they slew me as if I were their murderer. I am shaken off. What is this? They persecuted me, they cast me out.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth. I am a mere shadow, a shadow at the vanishing point, when it stretches far, but is almost lost in the universal gloom of evening which settles over all, and so obliterates the shadows cast by the setting sun. Lord, there is next to nothing left of me, wilt thou not come in before I am quite gone? I am tossed up and down as the locust, which is the sport of the winds, and must go up or down as the breeze carries it.
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Through
Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
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A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Through
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
leads to
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
