Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.
He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.
Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.
You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.
I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.
I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...
All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.
I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.
But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.
So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.
For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
<To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
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