"I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust."
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And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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.
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.