He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. He will prosper in everything he does.

But this is not the case with the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

You will break them with an iron rod, you will shatter them like pottery."

Indeed, you will bless the righteous one, LORD, like a large shield, you will surround him with favor. To the Director: With stringed instruments. On an eight-stringed harp. A Davidic Psalm

Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.

Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

I take refuge in the LORD. So how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains."?

The words of the LORD are pure, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on the LORD.

Like a lion they desire to rip us to pieces, like a young lion waiting in ambush.

I ground them like wind-swept dust; I emptied them out like dirt in the street.

which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, or like a champion who rejoices at the beginning of a race.

When you appear, you will set them ablaze like a fire furnace. In his wrath, the LORD will consume them, and the fire will devour them.

Their mouths are opened wide toward me, like roaring and attacking lions.

I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

To you, LORD, I cry out! My Rock, do not refuse to answer me. If you remain silent, I will become like those who descend into the Pit.

He makes them stagger like a calf, even Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

Like a dead man, I am forgotten in their thoughts like broken pottery.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Don't be like a horse or mule, without understanding. They are held in check by a bit and bridle in their mouths; otherwise they will not remain near you.

Make them like the chaff before the wind, as the messenger of the LORD pushes them aside.

All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?"

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your justice is like the great depths of the sea. You deliver both people and animals, LORD.

Indeed, they soon will wither like grass, and like green herbs they will fade away.

Indeed, the wicked will perish. The LORD's enemies will be consumed like flowers in the fields. They will vanish like smoke.

I once observed a wicked and oppressive person, flourishing like a green tree in native soil.

My iniquities loom over my head; like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me.

I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, and like the mute, who cannot open his mouth.

Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing, and in whose mouth there is no rebuke.

Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.

Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

My heart is overflowing with good news; I speak what I have composed to the king; my tongue is like the pen of an articulate scribe.

Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,

But humanity cannot last, despite its conceit; it will pass away just like the animals.

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

you will end up like your ancestors' generation, never again to see the light of day!

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever.

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on God.

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

At night they return like howling dogs; they prowl around the city.

Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying "Who will hear us?"

At night they return like howling dogs; they prowl around the city.

who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows,

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

When you men lie down among the sheepfolds, you are like the wings of the dove covered with silver, with its feathers in glittering gold."

Rebuke the wildlife that lives among the reeds, the nations that congregate like bulls and cows, humbling themselves with pieces of silver, for God scatters the nations that delight in battle.

May he be like the rain that descends on mown grass, like showers sprinkling on the ground.

May grain be abundant in the land all the way to the mountain tops; may its fruits flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and may the cities sprout like the grass of the earth.

Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.

Therefore God's people return there and drink it all in like water until they're satiated.

If I say, "I will talk like this," I would betray a generation of your children.

Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.

Then, I was too stupid and didn't realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.

God, your way is holy. What god is like our great God?

You have led your people like a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron. An instruction of Asaph

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

He brought streams from rock, causing water to flow like a river.

He caused meat to rain on them like dust and winged birds as the sand of the sea.

Yet he led out his people like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.

They fell away and were as disloyal as their ancestors. They became unreliable, like a defective bow;

The LORD awoke as though from sleep, like a mighty warrior stimulated by wine.

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Shepherd of Israel, listen! The one who leads Joseph like a flock, the one enthroned on the cherubim, display your glory.

However, as all human beings do, you will die, and like other rulers, you will fall.'

Punish their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.

I am considered as one of those descending into the Pit, like a mighty man without strength,

released to remain with the dead, lying in a grave like a corpse, remembered no longer, and cut off from your power.

Like waters, they engulf me all day long; they surround me on all sides.

For who in the skies compares to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the divine beings?

His dynasty will last forever and his throne will be like the sun before me.

It will be established forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the sky." Interlude

How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire?

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.

All our days pass away in your wrath; our years fade away and end like a sigh.

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

Mountains melt like wax in the LORD's presence In the presence of the LORD of all the earth.

For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

I lie awake, yet I am like a bird isolated on a rooftop.

My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.

They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

He keeps satisfying you with good things, and he keeps renewing your youth like the eagle's.

A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,