He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

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.

For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

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

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

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.

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.

Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.

His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)

How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

The mountains became like wax at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the Lord of all the earth.

He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.