"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.

he'll reveal their actions to them, when their transgressions have become excessive.

Let me announce the decree of the LORD that he told me: "You are my son, today I have become your father.

Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm, when he fled from his son Absalom.

All have turned away, together they have become corrupt; no one practices what is good, not even one.

To you, LORD, I cry out! My Rock, do not refuse to answer me. If you remain silent, I will become like those who descend into the Pit.

Listen to me, and deliver me quickly. Become a rock of safety for me, a fortified citadel to deliver me;

I have become an object of reproach to all my enemies, especially to my neighbors. I have become an object of fear to my friends, and whoever sees me outside runs away from me.

Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing, and in whose mouth there is no rebuke.

All of them have fallen away; together they have become corrupt; no one does what is good, not even one.

May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

They scavenge for food. If they find nothing, they become hungry and growl.

God, you have cast us off; you have breached our defenses and you have become enraged. Return to us!

Don't trust in oppression or put false hope in stealing; if you become wealthy, do not set your heart on it.

May they be given over to the power of the sword; may they become carrion for jackals.

May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies.

May their camp become desolate and their tents remain unoccupied.

I have become an example to many that you are my strong refuge.

How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.

Your thunderous sound was in a whirlwind; your lightning lights up the world; the earth becomes agitated and quakes.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

All who pass by on their way plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Pay attention, you dull ones among the crowds! You fools! Will you ever become wise?

If the LORD had not been my helper, I would have quickly become silent.

When my anxious inner thoughts become overwhelming, your comfort encourages me.

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.

You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.

I have become an object of derision to them they shake their heads whenever they see me.

Those who craft them will become like them, as will all those who trust in them.

The LORD is my strength and protector, for he has become my deliverer.

I will praise you because you have answered me and have become my deliverer.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

May my heart be blameless with respect to your statutes so that I may not become ashamed. Kaf

Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.

He will never let your foot slip, nor will your guardian become drowsy.

May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root

Those who craft them and all who trust in them will become like them.

If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night,"

Let not the slanderer become established in the land. May evil quickly hunt down the violent man.

Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit is failing. Do not hide your face from me; otherwise, I will become like those who descend to the Pit,

Gracious and merciful is the LORD, slow to become angry, and overflowing with gracious love.

Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent, but the prudent person overlooks an insult.

Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Do not love sleep or you'll become poor, keep your eyes open and you'll have plenty of food.

Plans of the persistent surely lead to productivity, but all who are hasty will surely become poor.

Pleasure lovers become poor; loving wine and oil doesn't bring riches.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.

When a ruler is listening to lies, all of his officials tend to become wicked.

If you pamper a servant from his childhood, later on he'll become ungrateful.

so that I don't become overfed and deny you by saying, "Who is the LORD?" or so that I don't become poor and steal, and then misuse the name of my God.

Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed,

I told myself, "I have become greater and wiser than anyone who ruled before me in Jerusalem yes, I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge."

The former can come out of prison to reign, while the latter, even if born to kingship, may become poor.

Never be in a hurry to become internally angry, since anger settles down in the lap of fools.

Whenever a sentence for a crime is not carried out swiftly, the human mind becomes determined to commit evil.

That land is blessed whose king is of noble birth, whose princes feast at the right time, for strength, and not to become drunk.

I've come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I've gathered my myrrh with my spices. I've eaten my honeycomb with my honey. I've drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink and become drunk with love.

As for your New Moons and your appointed festivals, I abhor them. They've become a burden to me; I've grown weary of carrying that burden.

"Please come, and let's reason together," implores the LORD. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be white like snow. Though they're like crimson, they'll become like wool.

"How the faithful city has become a whore, she who used to be filled with justice! Righteousness used to reside within her, but now only murderers live there.

Your silver has become dross, your best wine is diluted with water.

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has declared this so I could hear it: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great and beautiful houses, without occupants.

Then I asked, "For how long, LORD?" He replied: "Until cities lie waste, without inhabitants, and houses without people; and the land becomes utterly desolate.

"They'll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they'll become enraged, and they'll curse their king and their god. They'll turn their faces upwards,

From the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies the land has been scorched, and the people have become like fuel for the fire; no one will spare his neighbor.

to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans!

"The light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame, and it will burn and consume Assyria's thorns and briers in a single day.

At that time, his burden will depart from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck. Indeed, the yoke will be broken, because you've become obese."

"Look! God yes God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid. For the LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."

In answer, all of them will tell you, "You've also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!'

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has sworn: "Surely as I have planned, that's what she will become; and just as I have determined, so will it remain

A message about Damascus: "Look! Damascus will cease to be a city. Instead, it will become a pile of ruins.

"At that time, Jacob's glory will have become weakened, and his strong flesh will turn gaunt;

"The water sources of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will become dry and parched.

And the bulrushes along the Nile, along the mouth of the Nile, will wither away. All the sown fields of the Nile will become parched, and they will be blown away; there will be nothing left.

The fishermen will groan, and all who cast hooks into the Nile will lament; those who spread nets upon the water will become weaker and weaker.

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis deluded; the leaders of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will be afraid, because of the uplifted hand of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies that is turning in their direction.

I'll set him like a peg into a secure place; he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

At that time, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will become a glorious crown, a beautiful diadem for the remnant of his people,

So, then, the message from the LORD to them will become: "Do this and do that, do this and do that, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there," so that they will go, but fall backward, and be injured, snared, and captured.

But as for you, don't start mocking, or your chains will become tighter; for I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies about destruction, and it is decreed against the whole land.

Then I'll besiege Aruel, and there will be sorrow and mourning; she will become to me like an altar fireplace.

"But the hordes of your enemies will become like fine dust, and the hordes of tyrants like flying chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Aruel, all that attack her and her fortification and besiege her, will become like a dream, with its visions in the night

"And this entire vision has become for you like the words of a sealed book. When people give it to someone who can read, and say, "Read this, please,' he answers, "I cannot, because it is sealed.'

Then the Lord said: "Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, worship of me has become merely like rules taught by human beings.

But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and sheltering in Egypt's shadow your longing.

therefore, for you this sin will become like a breach in a high wall that is about to collapse, bulging out, and whose crash comes suddenly in an instant.

"For the palace will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become barren wastes forever, the delight of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,

until the Spirit from on high is poured upon us, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest."

Edom's streams will be turned into burning sulfur, and its dust into sulfur; its land will become pitch.

Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.