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The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

Verse ConceptsWindWicked Described AsChaffLight As ChaffThe Wicked Will Perish

Or he will tear my soul like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

Verse ConceptsLionsPeople Torn To Pieces

Let my judgment come forth from Your presence;
Let Your eyes look with equity.

Verse ConceptsMaking DecisionsThe Presence Of Godvindication

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

Verse ConceptsHuntingLionsWicked Described AsPeople Torn To PiecesLike CreaturesGreed

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

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionEnjoyment, Lack OfHeart, HumanPouringMeltingWaxBowelsDislocatingMessianic Propheciesbreasts

My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.

Verse ConceptsTongueFeverThings Stuck TogetherCreatures Returning To DustGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

Look upon my affliction and my trouble,
And forgive all my sins.

Verse ConceptsGod Forgive!Assisted SuicideAfflictions

Look upon my enemies, for they are many,
And they hate me with violent hatred.

Verse ConceptsHatredPeople Being Hated

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessEarsGod, The RockPitsRocksSilenceSpiritual FoundationsSpiritual DeafnessGoing Down To The PitPossibility Of DeathGod Being SilentI PrayPits As A Term For Graves

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
And Sirion like a young wild ox.

Verse ConceptsCalvesWild OxUnicornsjumping

Let them be like chaff before the wind,
With the angel of the Lord driving them on.

Verse ConceptsAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversLight As Chaff

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,
Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him,
And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

Verse ConceptsThe NeedyBad LeadershipBonesGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForPoverty, SpiritualRescueGod And The PoorCaring For OthersAnatomyWho Is Like God?

Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue my soul from their ravages,
My only life from the lions.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's ConcernLionsRescueProlonged AfflictionsDeliverance From LionsBefore God Acts

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;
And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedPeople Passing Away

But the wicked will perish;
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures,
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

I have seen a wicked, violent man
Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenAffluenceWicked Described AsPursuing ViolenceAbuse

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessdisabilitiesMutenessSpiritual DeafnessIndividuals Being SilentUnhearingnegativity

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.

Verse ConceptsUnhearing

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsRebukeSilenceSecurity, FalseInfidelity To GodGod Being SilentThe Same As GodGod Requite Them!Thoughtsaccusations

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Verse ConceptsTongueFalsehoodSpeaking, EvilSharpnessRazors

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

Verse ConceptsArrows

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

Verse ConceptsMiscarriagesMiscarriages And Stillborn

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

Verse ConceptsNoisedogsBarking And Howling

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.

Verse ConceptsMeeting GodGod Shows His LovingkindnessGod's Willdevotion

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

Verse ConceptsBarking And Howling

How long will you assail a man,
That you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsArrows, Figurative OfSharpeningArrows

When you lie down among the sheepfolds,
You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.

Verse ConceptsdovesGoldSleep, PhysicalWingsSheepfoldsWings Of BirdsStock Keeping

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.

Verse ConceptsGod's DwellingAvoid Envy

For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You?

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfSkyWho Is Like God?

May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains;
Its fruit will wave like the cedars of Lebanon;
And may those from the city flourish like vegetation of the earth.

Verse ConceptsCornGrainGrassLand ProducingBlessings From The Mountains

They are not in trouble as other men,
Nor are they plagued like mankind.

Verse ConceptsImmunityNo TroubleLife StrugglesHardshipproblems

Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLike A Dreamawakeningimage

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodGenerationsAttitudes Of StubbornnessLoyaltyRebellion, Of IsraelSelf WillNot Like PeopleBeing Differentrebellionfatherhoodapostasy

He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Verse ConceptsPassing ThroughRestraintDivision Of WatersWaters DividedThe Sea Divided

He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, God'sSplitting RocksProvision From Rocks

He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Verse ConceptsDivine SuppliesProvision From Rocks

When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

Verse ConceptsNumerous As DustQuailSand And Gravel

But He led forth His own people like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Verse ConceptsGod our ShepherdSheep

But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfUnreliabilityTwistingUseless PeopleFalling Away From God

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior overcome by wine.

Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualWineGod Waking Upawakening

And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

Verse ConceptsEternal WorldCreation Of The EarthUnicorns

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.

Verse ConceptsHorrors Of WarHuman Blood ShedNo Burials

For the choir director; set to El Shoshannim; Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.
Oh, give ear, Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who are enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth!

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdCarvings Of FlowersDivine ManifestationsJudgment SeatKnowing God, Effects OfMetaphorsMusicPeople Of God, In OtShepherds, As Kings And LeadersSittingCherubim, At God's ThroneGod's Shekinah GloryCherubim

O God of hosts, turn again now, we beseech You;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Verse ConceptsGod Acts From Heavenmindfulness

“Nevertheless you will die like men
And fall like any one of the princes.”

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is Inevitable

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

Verse ConceptsNamed Gentile Rulers

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsLight As ChaffWeed

Like fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Verse ConceptsBurning PlantsHarming Treesfirefighters

Behold our shield, O God,
And look upon the face of Your anointed.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord's Anointed

There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord,
Nor are there any works like Yours.

Verse ConceptsComparisonsNo One Is Like GodUnique Things

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

Verse ConceptsPitsGoing Down To The PitAfflicted To DeathWithout StrengthPits As A Term For Graves

Forsaken among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSuffering, Of The InnocentGod ForgettingPeople Abandoning PeopleState Of The Dead

They have surrounded me like water all day long;
They have encompassed me altogether.

Verse ConceptsThings SurroundingWater, As A Symbol Of AfflictionFloods

For who in the skies is comparable to the Lord?
Who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord,

Verse ConceptsMonotheismComparisonsWho Is Like God?Angels

You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain;
You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

Verse ConceptsArmsRedemption, In OtStrength, DivineArm Of GodScattering The Peoples

“It shall be established forever like the moon,
And the witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah.

Verse ConceptsMoonSkyChrist Reigning ForeverPsalm InterjectionsThe Moon

How long, O Lord?
Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your wrath burn like fire?

Verse ConceptsProlonged AfflictionsGod HidingBefore God Acts

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.

Verse ConceptsThe Final Days Of Timeeternity, nature ofGod, The EternalYears1000 Years And MoreDaysThe Pastpast

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

Verse ConceptsGrassPunishment, Nature OfGod KillingGod KillsNatural DisastersRenewal

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

Verse ConceptsSighingPhysical LifePassing AwayPeople EndedDeathFinishing Strong

You will only look on with your eyes
And see the recompense of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsGod Will RequiteSeeing SituationsPunishment of the The Wicked

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

Verse ConceptsGrassWicked Described AsThe Fate Of The WickedEvildoersEternal JudgementDestruction Of The WickedGod Judges The WickedLike GrassProsperity Of The Wicked

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

Verse ConceptsMountainsWaxThe Presence Of God

For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Verse ConceptsDamage To The BodyFurnacesImminent Tomorrowsmoking

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the waste places.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyBirds, Types Of BirdsOwlsPelicans

Even they will perish, but You endure;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

Verse ConceptsDecayClothing The EarthClean ClothesThings Wearing OutAbrasion