Lexicon :: Strong's G4639 - skia

When Gaal saw the troops, he said to Zebul, “Look, troops are coming down from the mountaintops! ” But Zebul said to him, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”

Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the LORD that he will do what he has promised: Should the shadow go ahead ten steps or go back ten steps? ”

For we are aliens and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,

and a cloud settle over it.

May what darkens the day terrify it.

Like a slave he longs for shade;

like a hired worker he waits for his pay.

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.

Our days on earth are but a shadow.

He reveals mysteries from the darkness

and brings the deepest darkness into the light.

He blossoms like a flower, then withers;

he flees like a shadow and does not last.

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure.

His possessions[fn] will not increase in the land.

My face has grown red with weeping,

and darkness covers my eyes,

For the morning is like darkness to them.

Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

A miner puts an end to the darkness;

he probes[fn] the deepest recesses

for ore in the gloomy darkness.

Even when I go through the darkest valley,[fn]

I fear no danger,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff ​— ​they comfort me.

But you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals

and have covered us with deepest darkness.

Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me,

for I take refuge in you.

I will seek refuge in the shadow of your wings

until danger passes.

The mountains were covered by its shade,

and the mighty cedars[fn] with its branches.

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,

in the darkest places, in the depths.

My days are like a lengthening shadow,

and I wither away like grass.

Others sat in darkness and gloom[fn] —

prisoners in cruel chains —

He brought them out of darkness and gloom

and broke their chains apart.

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;

I am shaken off like a locust.

A human is like a breath;

his days are like a passing shadow.

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

because wisdom is protection as silver is protection;

but the advantage of knowledge

is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

Like an apricot[fn] tree among the trees of the forest,

so is my love among the young men.

I delight to sit in his shade,

and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Until the day breaks[fn]

and the shadows flee,

turn around, my love, and be like a gazelle

or a young stag on the divided mountains.[fn]

Until the day breaks[fn]

and the shadows flee,

I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh

and the hill of frankincense.

and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

The people walking in darkness

have seen a great light;

a light has dawned

on those living in the land of darkness.

“I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on the stairway of Ahaz go back by ten steps.’ ” So the sun’s shadow[fn] went back the ten steps it had descended.

I have put my words in your mouth,

and covered you in the shadow of my hand,

in order to plant[fn] the heavens,

to found the earth,

and to say to Zion, “You are my people.”

“Set them apart for war against her;

rise up, let’s attack at noon.

Woe to us, for the day is passing;

the evening shadows grow long.

Give glory to the LORD your God

before he brings darkness,

before your feet stumble

on the mountains at dusk.

You wait for light,

but he brings darkest gloom[fn]

and makes total darkness.

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life,[fn]

was captured in their traps.

We had said about him,

“We will live under his protection among the nations.”

“I will plant it on Israel’s high mountain

so that it may bear branches, produce fruit,

and become a majestic cedar.

Birds of every kind will nest under it,

taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

“All the birds of the sky

nested in its branches,

and all the animals of the field

gave birth beneath its boughs;

all the great nations lived in its shade.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,

who turns darkness[fn] into dawn

and darkens day into night,

who summons the water of the sea

and pours it out over the surface of the earth —

the LORD is his name.

Jonah left the city and found a place east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.