Psalm 17:8

"Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings." (Psalm 17:8)

 

There are twelve references in the Bible to God's "shadow," understood as a type of His invisible, but very real, guiding presence. The reference in our text above is the first, and there are three other references to this beautiful metaphor--the "shadow" of the wings of God.  Assures us that men can "put their trust under the shadow of thy wings," and  that we can take refuge there "until these calamities be overpast," and then we can "rejoice" there.

 

The Lord's presence is like "the shadow of a great rock in a weary land," according to. The same prophet quoted God as saying that "I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand" even as He formed the heavens and the earth, while hiding us "in the shadow of his hand".

 

Then there is the wonderful promise of. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." He can also be "a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall," bringing down "the heat with the shadow of a cloud" . Similarly, He is "a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain".