His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

Apply your mind to her rampart, Pass between her palaces, That ye may recount them to an after generation;

Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.

Though ye do lie between two boundaries, Wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

The singers go in front, the players of instruments last;
Between them the maidens playing on tambourines.

He will prepare a beaten path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, and their life he delivered to the word;

{To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph.} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

Who is sending forth fountains in valleys, Between hills they go on.

By them the fowl of the heavens doth dwell, From between the branches They give forth the voice.

And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

He rescued them many times,
but they continued to rebel deliberately
and were beaten down by their sin.

As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

Cause me to tread in the beaten path of thy commands, for I delighted in it

Thy word a lamp to my feet, and a light to my beaten path.

In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has beaten my life down to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, as those long dead.