Psalm 109:23
Strong's Lexicon
I am fading away
נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי (ne·hĕ·lā·ḵə·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: 1) to go, walk, come 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away 1a2) to die, live, manner of life (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to walk 1b2) to walk (fig.) 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to traverse 1c2) to walk about 1d) (Niphal) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk

like a lengthening
כִּנְטוֹת֥וֹ (kin·ṭō·w·ṯōw)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5186: 1) to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stretch out, extend, stretch, offer 1a2) to spread out, pitch (tent) 1a3) to bend, turn, incline 1a3a) to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down 1a3b) to bend, bow 1a3c) to hold out, extend (fig.) 1b) (Niphal) to be stretched out 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to stretch out 1c2) to spread out 1c3) to turn, incline, influence, bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away

shadow;
כְּצֵל־ (kə·ṣêl-)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6738: 1) shadow, shade 1a) shadow (on dial) 1b) shadow, shade (as protection) 1c) shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life)

I am shaken off
נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי (nin·‘ar·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5287: 1) to shake, shake out or off 1a) (Qal) to shake out, show emptiness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be shaken 1b2) to shake oneself 1c) (Piel) to shake off or out 1d) (Hithpael) to shake oneself

like a locust.
כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃ (kā·’ar·beh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 697: 1) a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll) 2) (CLBL) 2a) sudden disappearance (fig.) 2b) insignificance (fig.) 2c) activity (fig.)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I fade 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.

King James Bible
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Parallel Verses
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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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
















Cross References
Exodus 10:19
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.

Job 39:20
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalm 109:21
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

Psalm 109:20
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Psalm 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Psalm 109:25
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Psalm 109:26
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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