Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?

Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

[A Prayer of David.] Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.

You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a melodious sound.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

[A Psalm.] O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory.

Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its going down.

The sun arises, they gather themselves together, and lay themselves down in their dens.

Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business on great waters;

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.

They stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised.

But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatsoever he has pleased.

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

You have trodden down all them that stray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

[Ayin] I have done what is right and just: leave me not to my oppressors.

Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.

LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.

What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue?

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.

The LORD has done great things for us; and we are glad.

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

I will sing a new song unto you, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto you.

That our barns may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that are bowed down.

The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:

The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on sheol.

For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Her house is the way to sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.

The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and casts down the stronghold in which they trust.

Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart unto my knowledge.

Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a muddied fountain, and a polluted spring.

He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

The words of a talebearer are tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.

If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.

The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to its place where it arose.

The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can a man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done.

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Yea, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is one who neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes behind your veil: your hair is like a flock of goats, going down from mount Gilead.

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

My beloved has gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me: your hair is as a flock of goats going down from Gilead.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the blossoms of the valley, and to see whether the vine had budded, and the pomegranates were in bloom.

And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, flowing gently over lips and teeth.

And man bows down, and the great man humbles himself: therefore forgive them not.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be done to him.