Psalms 109:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:19 : 19 And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Ps 102:10-11 : 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you. 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

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