Psalms 44:19

¹⁷ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

²¹ Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
KJV: Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
WEB: though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
ASV: That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
DARBY: Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
BLB: Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, and You have covered over us with the shadow of death.

ÅB: så du skulle sønderknuse oss der hvor sjakaler bor, og dekke oss med dødsskygge.
OTB: Likevel har Du knust oss på et øde sted,
Og dekket oss med dyp mørke.
B1930: så du skulde sønderknuse oss der hvor sjakaler bor, og dekke oss med dødsskygge.

Psalms 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
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Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Psalms 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
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Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
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Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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Isaiah 34:13–14
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
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Revelation 13:11–13
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
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Psalms 74:13–14
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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