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“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.

So man lies down and does not rise.
Until the heavens are no longer,
He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep.

“He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend down to the ground.

“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.

“Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will be my guarantor?

Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

“His vigorous stride is shortened,
And his own scheme brings him down.

“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

“His bones are full of his youthful vigor,
But it lies down with him in the dust.

“They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

“Together they lie down in the dust,
And worms cover them.

“Who will confront him with his actions,
And who will repay him for what he has done?

“When you are cast down, you will speak with confidence,
And the humble person He will save.

“The murderer arises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he is as a thief.

“He lies down rich, but never again;
He opens his eyes, and it is no longer.

“I smiled on them when they did not believe,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.

May my wife grind for another,
And let others kneel down over her.

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

Teach me what I do not see;
If I have done iniquity,
I will not do it again’?

“Who has appointed Him His way,
And who has said, ‘You have done wrong’?

Which the clouds pour down,
They drip upon man abundantly.

“Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,

“They kneel down, they bring forth their young,
They get rid of their labor pains.

“Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him,
And tread down the wicked where they stand.

“Under the lotus plants he lies down,
In the covert of the reeds and the marsh.

Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?

O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is injustice in my hands,

Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

He crouches, he bows down,
And the unfortunate fall by his mighty ones.

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.

They have now surrounded us in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.

They have bowed down and fallen,
But we have risen and stood upright.

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

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.

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not build them up.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

There the doers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow
To cast down the afflicted and the needy,
To slay those who are upright in conduct.

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,
That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

Through You we will push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.

“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.

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble upon me
And in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Because of wickedness, cast them forth,
In anger put down the peoples, O God!

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.

Through God we shall do valiantly,
And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.

They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

Come and hear, all who fear God,
And I will tell of what He has done for my soul.

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

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

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

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

He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them food from heaven.

Why have You broken down its hedges,
So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

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

It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.

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

A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But it shall not approach you.

With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp,
With resounding music upon the lyre.

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done,
I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

A Psalm.
O sing to the Lord a new song,
For He has done wonderful things,
His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.

For He looked down from His holy height;
From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth,

The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.