Who knows not among all these that the hand of the LORD has done this?

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.

So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

Lay down a surety for me with you; who is he that will give surety for me?

They shall go down to the gates of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: from the proceeds of business he shall not rejoice.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?

Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:

Surely our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.

If I mocked them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

That which I see not you teach me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to its vapor:

Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place;

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

Behold, the hope of subduing him is in vain: shall one not be cast down even at the sight of him?

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.

[To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth;

Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, by your sword:

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

All the prosperous of earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright behavior.

Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

An evil disease, say they, clings close unto him: and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our body cleaves unto the earth.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

I will praise you forever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into the grave: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Shall they escape by iniquity? in your anger cast down the people, O God.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.

Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have done for us.

Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who has done great things: O God, who is like unto you!

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

But now they break down its carved work at once with axes and hammers.

They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them down, and drink them.

We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the grain of heaven.

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the strongest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.

And struck down all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: