Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.

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.

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

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.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

He makes wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in two; he burns the chariot in the fire.

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

There broke he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

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

[A Prayer of David.] Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.