52 Bible Verses about Shadows

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Isaiah 30:2-3

Going to come down to Egypt, and my mouth they asked not; to be strengthened by the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt And the strength of Pharaoh was to you for shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt for reproach.

Judges 9:15

And the buckthorn will say to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me for king over you, come, take refuge in my shadow: and if not, fire shall come forth from the buckthorn and shall consume the cedars of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 48:45

They fleeing from the power stood in the shadow of Heshbon: for a fire will come forth from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall consume, the corners of Moab and the crown of the sons of noise.

Hosea 14:7

They sitting in his shadow shall turn back; they shall live upon the grain, and they shall blossom as the vine: his remembrance as the wine of Lebanon.

Jonah 4:5-6

And Jonah will go out of the city, and sit from the east to the city, and he make to him there a tent, and he will sit under it in the shadow, even till he shall see what will be upon the city. And Jehovah God will appoint a gourd, and it will come up from above to Jonah to be a shadow over his head to deliver to him from his evil. And Jonah will rejoice over the gourd with great joy.

Mark 4:32

And when it be sown, it comes up and is greater than all vegetables, and makes great young shoots; so that the flying things of heaven can encamp under its shadow.

Psalm 36:7

How precious thy mercy, O God! and the sons of man shall put their trust in the shadow of thy wings.

Psalm 57:1

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy, to David a poem in his fleeing from the face of Saul in the cave. Compassionate me, O God, compassionate me: for in thee my soul put trust, and in the shadow of thy wings I will put my trust till calamity shall pass by.

Psalm 63:7

For thou wert a help to me, and in the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice.

Isaiah 4:5-6

And Jehovah created upon all the foundation of mount Zion and upon all her convocation, a cloud by day, and smoke, and the shining of afire of flame by night: and upon all the glory a covering. And a booth shall be for a shadow by day from heat, and for a refuge, and for a hiding place from the storm, and from rain.

Isaiah 25:4-5

For thou wert a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in straits; to him a refuge from the inundation, a shadow from the heat when the wind of the terrible ones as the inundation of the wall. As the heat in Zion the noise of strangers thou shalt bring down; the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the song of the terrible shall be humbled.

Isaiah 49:2

And he set my mouth as a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me, and he will set me for a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me.

Isaiah 51:16

And I will put my word in thy mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I covered thee, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou my people.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man was as a hiding of the spirit, and a covering of the tempest; as brooks of water in Zion, as the shadow of a weighty rock in a weary land.

Lamentations 4:20

The spirit of our nostrils, the Messiah of Jehovah was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

Ezekiel 17:22-23

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And I took from the foliage of the cedar, and I gave from the head; I will pluck its suckers a tender one, and I planted upon a mountain of height and heaped up. In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it: and it bare a branch, and it made fruit, and it was for a great cedar: and there dwelt under it all fowls of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.

Psalm 144:4

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

Job 8:9

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Job 14:2

And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.

Psalm 109:23

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

Isaiah 59:9

For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.

Job 3:3-5

The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived. That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it. Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it

Job 7:2-3

As the servant will gape for the shadow, and as the hireling will wait for his work: So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.

Job 16:16

My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death

Job 17:7

And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.

Job 38:17

Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?

Job 10:21-22

Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

Job 12:22

Revealing deep things from darkness, and he will bring to light the shadow of death.

Job 34:22

Not darkness and not the shadow of death for those working iniquity to hide there.

Psalm 139:11-12

And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me. Also darkness shall not darken from thee; and the night shall shine as the day: as the darkness, so the light

Isaiah 60:1-2

Arise,shine, for thy light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon thee. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gloom the nations: and Jehovah shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Colossians 2:16-17

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

Hebrews 8:5

Who serve the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was given an intimation of the divine will, being about to complete the tent: for, See, says he, thou make all things according to the type shewed thee in the mount.

Judges 9:36

And Gaal will see the people, and he will say to Zebul, Behold, people coming down from the heads of the mountains. And Zebul will say to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as men.

Nehemiah 13:19

And it will be as the gates of Jerusalem were darkened before the Sabbath, and saying, and the doors shall be shut, and saying that they shall not open them till after the Sabbath: and from my young men I caused to stand at the gates; a burden shall not be brought in in the day of the Sabbath.

Jeremiah 6:4

Consecrate ye war against her; arise, and we will go up at noon. Wo to us! for the day turned away, for the shadows of the evening will stretch forth.

2 Kings 20:9-11

And Isaiah will say, This the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do the word which he spake: the shadow going ten steps, or shall it turn back ten steps? And Hezekiah will say, A light thing to the shadow to bow ten steps: nay, for the shadow shall turn back-wards ten steps. And Isaiah the prophet will call to Jehovah, and he will turn back the shadow in the steps which went down, in the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten degrees

Isaiah 38:8

Behold me turning back the shadow of the steps which will go down in the steps of Ahaz in the sun, backward ten steps. And the sun will turn back ten steps in the steps which it will go down.

Acts 5:15

So that the sick were brought into the streets, and laid upon beds and couches, that Peter coming, even the shadow might overshadow certain of them.

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