Shadow

And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

…to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

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.

How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.

I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

…the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

…to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.