80:10 The mountains were covered by its shadow,
the highest cedars 1 by its branches.
144:4 People 2 are like a vapor,
their days like a shadow that disappears. 3
1 tn Heb “cedars of God.” The divine name אֵל (’al, “God”) is here used in an idiomatic manner to indicate the superlative.
2 tn Heb “man,” or “mankind.”
3 tn Heb “his days [are] like a shadow that passes away,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11.