Reference: Shadow
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Sometimes denotes intense darkness and gloom, Ps 23:4, and sometimes a cool retreat, Isa 33:2, or perfect protection, Ps 17:8; Isa 49:2; Da 4:12. The long shadows cast by the declining sun are alluded to in Job 7:2; Jer 6:4. The swift, never ceasing motion of a shadow is an emblem of human life, 1Ch 29:15; Ps 102:11.
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For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,
Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!
Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes.
He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.
They will say, 'Prepare to do battle against it! Come on! Let's attack it at noon!' But later they will say, 'Oh, oh! Too bad! The day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long.
Easton
used in Col 2:17; Heb 8:5; 10:1 to denote the typical relation of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation.
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these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain."
For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.