Psalm 109:23
Modern Translations
New International Version
I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

New Living Translation
I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am brushed off like a locust.

English Standard Version
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Berean Study Bible
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

New American Standard Bible
I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.

NASB 1995
I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.

NASB 1977
I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.

Amplified Bible
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades; I am shaken off like the locust.

Christian Standard Bible
I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Contemporary English Version
I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am tossed aside like a crawling insect.

Good News Translation
Like an evening shadow I am about to vanish; I am blown away like an insect.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.

International Standard Version
I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

NET Bible
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

New King James Version
I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

King James 2000 Bible
I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.

New Heart English Bible
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

World English Bible
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

American King James Version
I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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

A Faithful Version
As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

Darby Bible Translation
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

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

Webster's Bible Translation
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
I passe away like a vading shadowe: and I am dryuen from place to place lyke the grashopper.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
I go hence like ye shadowe that departeth, and am dryuen awaye as ye greshoppers.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, "" I have been driven away as a locust.

Young's Literal Translation
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

Smith's Literal Translation
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines, and I have been shaken off like locusts.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
My steps have declined like the shadow and I am driven like locusts!

Lamsa Bible
I am bent like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down as the locust.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.
















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