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23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
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. …
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)David, having denounced God’s wrath against his enemies, here takes God’s comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting. I. He pours out his complaint before God concerning the low condition he was in, which, probably, gave advantage to his enemies to insult over him: “ I am poor and needy , and therefore a proper object of pity, and one that needs and craves thy help.” 1.…
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