I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
And the Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down. My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
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