And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.
Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?
So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.
May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.
If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.
And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.
He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.
Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.
Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.
And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.
And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.
How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.
But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.
Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.
There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.
They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.
His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.
His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)
How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
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