Let them be like chaff before [the] wind, with the angel of Yahweh {driving them}.

Make them - their nobles - like Oreb and like Zeeb, And, like Zebah and like Zalmunna, all their princes:

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor!

He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.

Make them like Midian, like Sisera, like Jabin, by the torrent of Kishon;

Therefore pride is their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].

For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

However, you will die like men
and fall like any other ruler.”

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.

Lord, there is no one like You among the gods,
and there are no works like Yours.

For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.

The righteous thrive like a palm tree
and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

They will perish, but You will endure;
all of them will wear out like clothing.
You will change them like a garment,
and they will pass away.

As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;

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.

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

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.

He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

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.

He gives snow like wool: he scatters the frost like ashes.

Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself,
like a belt he always wears.

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.

The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills, like lambs.

Mountains, that you skipped like rams?
Hills, like lambs?

They surrounded me like bees;
they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;
in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.

Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself
like a little weaned child with its mother;
I am like a little child.

Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

{He is like} a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

And I ground them like dust {in the wind}, I emptied them out like mud of [the] streets.

and it [is] like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run [its] course.

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come near you.

Your righteousness [is] {like the mighty mountains}, your judgments [like the] great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.

Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

But as for me, like [the] deaf I cannot hear, and [I am] like [the] mute [who] cannot open his mouth.

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish -- vanish like smoke.

[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.

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

Like [the] moon it will be steadfast forever, and [like] an enduring witness in the sky.'" Selah

You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.

The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.