I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
- BSB I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
- NKJV I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
- NASB I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.
- NLT I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am brushed off like a locust.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Exod 10:19Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
- 1 Chr 29:15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
- Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
- Ps 102:10–11Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
- Exod 10:13Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Ps 144:4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
- Eccl 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, 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?
- Eccl 8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God.
- Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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