A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:
She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.
But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.
We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
<For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.
You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.
I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;
Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.
<A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.
<A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.
Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.
Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.
It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe;
Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
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