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Psalms 109:23 Cross-References
Explore 9 cross-references for Psalms 109:23 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Psalms chapter 109 verse 23 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.”
Psalms 109:23 (KJV)
Commentary on Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Two vivid metaphors capture David's sense of transience and helplessness. The declining shadow (ke-tsel kintoyo, כְּצֵל כִּנְטוֹתוֹ) refers to lengthening afternoon shadows that signal day's end—fleeting, insubstantial, soon to vanish entirely. David feels his life ebbing away, his substance dissolving like shadows before nightfall.The locust image conveys violent instability: tossed up and down translates ni'arti (נִעֲרְתִּי, shaken off), describing how locusts are shaken from garments or driven by wind. Locus...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Psalms 109:23
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“which took up the locusts”
“for you have taken me up”
“and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow”
“and foreigners”
“neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.”
“Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”
“and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day”
“that appears for a little time”
“all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?”