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Psalms Chapter 109 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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BBE Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
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DARBY Psalms 109:23

I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
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KJV Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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WBT Psalms 109:23

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WEB Psalms 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
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YLT Psalms 109:23

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - I am gone like the shadow when it declineth; rather, lille a shodow (comp. Psalm 102:11). When shadows "decline," they are just about to cease and disappear. I am tossed up and down as the locust; or, "I am carried away" - swept off, i.e., or just ready to be swept off, from the face of the earth (see Exodus 10:19; Joel 2:20; Nahum 3:17).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Shadow when it declineth.--Literally, a lengthened shade. (Comp. Psalm 102:11, and see Note. Song of Solomon 2:17.) When the day declines the shadow lengthens, it becomes longer and longer, till it vanishes in the universal darkness. Thus does the life of the suffering generation pass away.Tossed up and down.--Better, tossed or shaken out, as from the lap. So LXX. and Vulg. (See Nehemiah 5:13, where the same verb is three times used.) The grasshopper was an emblem of timidity (Job 39:20).