'Shadow' in the Bible
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
“Certainly, man walks about like a mere shadow.Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,gathering possessionswithout knowing who will get them.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.