Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.

He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.

He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

Who maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places;

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo.

I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

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

Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go round about the city:

And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?

He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth.

They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:

Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

{To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth.

The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of God;

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, Lord, and there is nothing like unto thy works.

Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.

Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire?

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;

I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.

Who satisfieth thine old age with good things; thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --

He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places like a river.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:

But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.

And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;

I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?

They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.

They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do not forget thy statutes.

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.

{A Song of degrees.} When Jehovah turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.

Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned child.

Like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, upon Aaron's beard, that ran down to the hem of his garments;

They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?