The King James Version Bible

Psalms 109:23

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

Cross References

  1. And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
  2. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
  3. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
  4. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  5. Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
  6. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
  7. For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
  8. But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
  9. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.