'Down' in the Bible

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

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

For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

"What profit is there in my destruction, if 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 to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. By David.

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

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai -- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

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

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh's name is to be praised.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forevermore. A Song of Ascents.

To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?