Psalms 109:23

“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth, etc.] When the sun is setting, and the shadow is going off; man’s life is often compared to a shadow, because fleeting, momentary, and soon gone, (<132915>1 Chronicles 29:15 <181402>Job 14:2 <19A211>Psalm 102:11) and death is expressed by going the way of all flesh; and by going to the grave, the house for all living, a man’s long home, (<062314>Joshua 23:14 <183023>Job 30:23) and so is the death of Christ, (<422222>Luke 22:22), it may be rendered, “I am made to go” f1563, denoting the violent death of Christ, who was cut off out of the land of the living, and whose life was taken away from the earth, (<235308>Isaiah 53:8). I am tossed up and down…”

“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - See the notes at Psalms 102:11. I am tossed up and down as the locust - Agitated, moved, driven about, as a cloud of locusts is by the wind. The meaning of the whole is, that he was frail and weak, and needed strength from on high. return to 'Top of Page'”

“When - Towards the evening, when the sun is setting. The locust - Which is easily driven away with every wind. Next: Psalms Chapter 110”

“109:23 A shadow at dusk suggests a transitory, empty existence (102:11; 144:4); a single locust could easily be brushed off one’s clothing.”

“gone: Psa 102:11, Psa 144:4; Ch1 29:15; Job 14:2; Ecc 6:12, Ecc 8:13; Jam 4:14 I am tossed: Psa 102:10; Exo 10:13, Exo 10:19 Psalms 109:24”