They leap like the rumbling of chariots echoing from mountain tops, like the roar of wild fire that devours the chaff, as an army firmly established in battle array.

They run like elite soldiers, climbing ramparts like men trained for war. Each man advances in proper order, never breaking rank.

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath.

"But let justice roll on like many waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing river.

Surely the land will tremble because of this, won't it? And all who live in it will mourn, won't they? The entire land will swell up like a flooded river. It will be stirred up and then will sink like the river of Egypt.

I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all of your songs to dirges. I will cause all of you to put on sackcloth and to shave all of your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son, and its conclusion will be like the end of a bitter day."

"The Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies who is touching the earth so that it melts and all of its inhabitants mourn there the land rises like the Nile River, but sinks like the river of Egypt

The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will split apart, like wax in the presence of fire and like water gushing down a steep incline.

"Therefore I will cry out and grieve loudly; I will walk around stripped and naked. I will cry out like a jackal and mourn like a company of ostriches.

"Jacob, how I will surely gather all of you! How I will gather the survivors of Israel! I will gather them together like sheep in a pen, like the flock in the midst of the sheepfold. There will be a great commotion because of all the people.

You eat the flesh of my people, flaying their skin from them. You break their bones, chopping them in pieces like meat for a pot, like meat destined for a soup kettle.'

"Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the Temple Mount like a forest high place."

Get up and smash them to pieces, daughter of Zion, because I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze! And you will beat many people to pieces, and I will consecrate their dishonest gain to the LORD and their assets to the Lord of the entire earth."

Poor me! I feel like those who harvest summer fruit, or like those who pick grapes there are no clusters to eat or any fresh fruit that I want.

They will lick the dust like a serpent; they will crawl from their strongholds like snakes. They will fear the LORD our God. They will be terrified because of you.

Their chariots storm through the streets, jostling each other along broad avenues. They look like torches, as they dart around like lightning.

In that place fire will consume you, the sword will cut you down, consuming you as locusts do. Multiply yourself like locusts, increase like swarming grasshoppers.

Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper; your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers, settling in the stone walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they flee away; no one knows where they went.

"You have fashioned mankind like fish in the ocean, like creeping things that have no ruler.

This was the passage of Scripture he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, and like a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth's hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.

Do you have strength like God? Can you create thunder with a sound like he can?"

He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.

He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.

I set an example of the way to live, as a leader would; I lived like a king among his army; like one who comforts mourners."

"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,

"Tyre built itself a fortification, hoarding silver like dust and pure gold like mud in a street.

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies will defend them; they will devour and conquer those who sling stones. They will drink and be boisterous like those who are drunk. They will be filled to the brim with blood, like the corners of the altar.

"The people of Ephraim will become like mighty soldiers; they will be glad, like those who have wine. Their children will see this and rejoice; their hearts will find joy in the Lord.

"At that time, I will make the leaders of Judah like a brazier filled with blazing wood, or like a torch setting fire to harvested grain. They will devour all the invading armies, both on the right hand and on the left. As a result, Jerusalem will again be inhabited in its rightful place as the real Jerusalem.'"

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

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

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

because he was teaching them like a person who had authority, and not like their scribes.

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.

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.

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

I would like everyone to be unmarried, like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they do the same to those of his household!"

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

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.

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

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.

To the Jews I became like a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the Law I became like a man under the Law, in order to win those under the Law (although I myself am not under the Law).

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Those who are made of the dust are like the man from the dust; those who are heavenly are like the man who is from heaven.

At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.

May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears.

I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

the mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

Mountains, that you skipped like rams? And you hills, that you skipped like lambs?

They surrounded me like bees; but they will be extinguished like burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I will defeat them.

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

you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.

I beg you, brothers, to become like me, since I became like you. You did not do anything wrong to me.

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

Let my prayer be like incense offered before you, and my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice.

May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table.

Instead, I have composed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am like a weaned child.

I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

Yet, don't treat him like an enemy, but warn him like a brother.

and your poverty will come on you like a bandit and your desperation like an armed man.

All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap

He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes.

Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.

when what you dread comes like a storm, and your calamity comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter's hand, or like a bird from a fowler's hand.

older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.

and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

You will roll them up like a robe, and they will be changed like clothes. But you remain the same, and your life will never end."

The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

Eventually it will bite like a snake and sting like a serpent.

You will be like someone who lies down in the sea, or like someone who sleeps on top of a mast.

Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.

The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion, but his goodwill is like dew on the grass.

For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

Indeed, this is why the gospel was proclaimed even to those who have died, so that they could be judged in their mortal flesh like all humans and live in the spiritual realm like God.

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

The daughters of Jerusalem, I'm dark and lovely like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

His head and his hair were white like wool, in fact, as white as snow. His eyes were like flames of fire,

his feet were like glowing bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of raging waters.

"To the messenger of the church in Thyatira, write: "The Son of God, whose eyes are like flaming fire and whose feet are like glowing bronze, says this:

The person sitting there looked like jasper and carnelian, and there was a rainbow around the throne that looked like an emerald.

They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions' teeth.

They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.

Then I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like columns of fire.

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it talked like a dragon.