“shadows” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word shadows appears 4 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 4 matching verses are shown below.
- Judges 9:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: Behold, a multitude cometh down from the mountains. And he answered him: Thou seest the shadows of the mountains as if they were the heads of men, and this is thy mistake.
- Canticle of Canticles 2:17 Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
- Canticle of Canticles 4:6 Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
- Jeremias 6:4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.