Psalms 109:23

23. Gone like the shadow Like a disappearing evening shadow, till its form and outline are lost in the darkness.

I am tossed up and down I am shaken out. I have been violently cast out of home and country. So Exodus 14:27, “The Lord shook off [margin] the Egyptians” Nehemiah 5:13, “So God shake out every man from his house.”

As the locust An allusion to their being tossed up and down by violent winds. Thus Morier: “On looking up we perceived an immense cloud, here and there semi-transparent, in other parts quite black, that spread itself all over the sky, and at intervals shadowed the sun. This we soon found to be locusts, whole swarms of them falling about us; but their passage was but momentary, for a fresh wind from the southwest, which had brought them to us, so completely drove them forward that not a vestige of them was seen two hours after.”