Psalms 109:23 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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

English ASV

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

English Amplified

I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

English EASY 2024

I will soon be gone, like a shadow that disappears in the evening. I am like an insect that the wind blows away.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I feel my life is over, fading like a shadow at day's end. I feel like a bug that someone brushed away.

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Like an evening shadow I am about to vanish; I am blown away like an insect.

English God's Word - GW 1995

I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

I am passing like a shadow when it is stretched out; I am shaken off like the locust.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Like a lengthening shadow I near my end, all but swept away like the locust.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

I fade away like an evening shadow. I'm like a locust that someone brushes off.

English NIV

I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

English NKJ 1982

I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

English NLT

I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am falling like a grasshopper that is brushed aside.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

I’m slipping down a dark slope, shaken to the core, and helpless.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

from life as easily as a man brushes a grasshopper from his arm.

English Tyndale 1537

I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshoppers.

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