shadow

Behold now, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man; let mee, I pray you, bring them out vnto you, and doe ye to them, as is good in your eyes: onely vnto these men do nothing: for therefore came they vnder the shadow of my roofe.

And the Bramble said vnto the trees, If in trueth ye anoint me King ouer you, then come, and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the Bramble, and deuoure the Cedars of Lebanon.

And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people downe frō the top of the mountaines. And Zebul saide vnto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountaines, as if they were men.

And Isaiah said, This signe shalt thou haue of the LORD, that the LORD will doe the thing that hee hath spoken: shall the shadow goe forward ten degrees, or goe backe tenne degrees?

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 48.24. isa. 38.8.

And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go downe tenne degrees: nay, but let the shadow returne backward tenne degrees.

And Isaiah the Prophet cryed vnto the LORD, and he brought the shadow tenne degrees backeward, by which it had gone downe in the diall of Ahaz.

1611 marginal noteHeb. degrees.

For we are strangers before thee, and soiourners, as were all our fathers: Our dayes on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

1611 marginal noteHebr. expectation.

1611 marginal notePsal. 39.12 and 90.9. heb. 11.13. 1.pet. 2.11.

Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.

1611 marginal noteOr, challenge it.

1611 marginal noteOr, let them terrifie it, as those who haue a bitter day.

As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke:

1611 marginal noteHebr. gapeth after.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.)

1611 marginal noteHeb. not.

1611 marginal noteSee chap. 7.6. gen. 47.9. 1.chron. 29.15. psal. 144.4. psal. 39.14.