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Psalms 109:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. "
Psalms 109:23
Verse in Context
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21 But deal with me, GOD the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
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Psalms 109:1
"God of my praise, don’t remain silent,"
Psalms 109:2
"for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue."
Psalms 109:3
"They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause."
Psalms 109:4
"In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer."
Psalms 109:5
"They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love."
Psalms 109:6
"Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand."
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