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

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

All they that are fat upon 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.

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

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, and to do good.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

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

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight.

Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

He raiseth the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

DALETH. My soul cleaveth to the dust: revive thou me according to thy word.

Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

TSADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.