52 Bible Verses about Shadows
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You go to Egypt for help without asking for my advice. You want Egypt to protect you. You put your trust in Egypt's military might. The safety of Pharaoh will be your shame and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
The thorn bush answered: 'If you really want to make me your king, then come and take shelter in my shade. If you do not, fire will blaze out of my thorny branches and burn up the cedars of Lebanon.'
Helpless people have run to find protection in Heshbon, the city that King Sihon once ruled, but it is in flames. It has burned up leaders of Moab and destroyed those proud people.'
Those who live in his shadow will raise grain again. They will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Then Jonah went out of the city. He sat on the east side of the city. He made a booth, and sat under it in the shade. He wanted to see what would become of the city. And Jehovah God prepared a gourd plant. He made it grow up over Jonah. That way it would be a shade over his head. It would deliver him from his disastrous (fateful) attitude. So Jonah was very glad to have the gourd plant.
But when it is planted it grows and becomes taller than all the plants. It grows out great branches so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.
He who lives under the shelter of the Most High will remain in the shadow of the Almighty.
Keep me as if I were the pupil (apple) of your eye (center of attention). Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
How precious is your loving-kindness, O God! And the children of men put their trust in the shadow of your wings.
([Psalm of David]) Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me for I take refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge until disaster has passed.
You have been my help. In the shadow (defense) of your wings, I sing joyfully.
Then Jehovah will create over the entire area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night. A canopy (shelter) will be over all as the glory (honor). There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.
You have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm, the noise of strangers like heat in a dry place, you subdued the heat with the shade of clouds; the song of the ruthless was stilled.
He made my tongue like a sharp sword. He hid me in the palm of his hand. He made me like a sharpened arrow and hid me in his quiver.
I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand (protection of my power, Holy Spirit). I set the heavens in place and laid the foundations of the earth. Yet I say to Zion: 'You are my people!'
Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a place to hide from storms. They will be like streams flowing in a desert, like the shadow of a giant rock in a barren land.
The breath of our nostrils, Jehovah's anointed have been captured in their pits. We said, Under the shadow we live among the nations.
Someday, I, Jehovah, will cut a tender twig from the top of a cedar tree. I will then plant it on the peak of Israel's tallest mountain, where it will grow strong branches and produce large fruit. All kinds of birds will find shelter under the tree, and they will rest in the shade of its branches.
Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.
After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.
He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.
I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.
That is why justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light and we walk in darkness. We hope for brightness but we walk in gloom.
May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said: 'A boy is born!' Let that day turn to darkness. May God above not care about it. Let no light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it once more. May a cloud settle over it and may blackness overwhelm its light.
It is like a worker who longs for the day to end, like a servant waiting to be paid. I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, to the land of dark night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.
If I say: Certainly the darkness will overwhelm me! Then the light around me will be night. Even the darkness is not dark to you. And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to you.
He reveals the deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.
The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).
Arise O woman and shine! Your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah beams on you. Darkness now covers the earth! Thick darkness overwhelms the nations. But Jehovah shines for you. His glory appears to you.
The light will shine on them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. It will guide our feet into the way of peace.
Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day. They are a shadow of the things to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
The work they do as priests is only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. It is the same as it was with Moses. When he was about to build the sacred tent, God told him: Be sure to make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
The Law is a shadow of the good things to come. It is not the actual things. The continual yearly sacrifices can never make those who worship perfect.
Gaal saw them and said to Zebul: There are men coming down from the mountaintops! Zebul answered: They are not men. They are only shadows on the mountains.
When the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the gate to be shut and not to be open again until after the Sabbath. I put some of my servants by the gate so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.
Prepare for war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines (is nearly over), for the shadows of the evening lengthen!
Isaiah replied: Jehovah will give you a sign to prove that he will keep his promise. Would you prefer to have the shadow on the stairway go forward ten steps or go back ten steps? Then Hezekiah said: It is an easy matter to have the shadow go forward ten steps. So have it go back ten steps. Isaiah prayed to Jehovah and Jehovah made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway set up by King Ahaz.
The sun made a shadow that went down the stairway of the upper palace of Ahaz. 'I am going to make the shadow go back ten steps.' So the sun on the stairway went back up the ten steps it had gone down.
They brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and cots in order that the shadow might fall on them when Peter passed by.
