You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

Therefore, as surely as I live," says the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, "be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land."

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry.

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire, like a launderer's soap.

He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering.

May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.

For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

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

because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more will they defame the members of his household!

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare

Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.