He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

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

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

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers."

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.