Let them be like chaff before the wind,
With the angel of the Lord driving them on.

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 clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: yea it went into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

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.

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;

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.

I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
It is melted [by anguish] within me.

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.

He gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
And Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

I ground them like wind-swept dust; I emptied them out like dirt in the street.

which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, or like a champion who rejoices at the beginning of a race.

He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep.

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? And ye little hills, like young sheep?

I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an owl in a broken wall.

My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
Your judgments are like the great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,

Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

How long will you attack a man
So that you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,

Sound your battle cry against the wild beast of the reeds, and the nations that assemble like a herd of calves led by bulls! They humble themselves and offer gold and silver as tribute. God scatters the nations that like to do battle.

He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Indeed, they soon will wither like grass, and like green herbs they will fade away.

Indeed, the wicked will perish. The LORD's enemies will be consumed like flowers in the fields. They will vanish like smoke.

He rained meat upon them like the dust,
And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.

Yet you will die like mortals; you will fall like all the other rulers."

O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

it will remain stable, like the moon, his throne will endure like the skies." (Selah)

Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears.

I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

They surrounded me like bees; but they will be extinguished like burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I will defeat them.

you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.

Let my prayer be like incense offered before you, and my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table.

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

Do not ye become like a horse, like a mule, without discernment, - With the bit and bridle of his mouth, hast thou to restrain him, - He will not come near unto thee.

Like as for a friend, like as for a brother of mine own, I walked to and fro, As though mourning for a mother, I gloomily bowed myself down.