I have seen the wicked ruthless, and spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

But like a deaf one, I do not hear; and I am like a dumb one who opens not his mouth.

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

You have given us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Fear took hold on them there, and pain, like a woman in labor.

For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.

But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals that perish.

Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home.

Man in honor, but without understanding, is like the animals; they shall perish.

These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,

Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.

And at evening they shall return; let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You will shatter him, all of you; you shall be like a bowing wall and a tottering fence.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word,

I am like a wonder to many, but You are my strong tower.

And Your righteousness, O God, is very high, who have done great things. O God, who is like You,

He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

They are not in trouble like other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride enchains them; violence covers them like a robe.

like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You.

You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

and He also rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea;

and led His people forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow.

Then the Lord awakened like one out of sleep, like a mighty man rejoicing with wine.

And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever.

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.

How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

To the Chief Musician. A Testimony Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You dwelling between the cherubs, shine forth.

But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah, and like Zalmunna;

O my God, make them like a wheel; like the stubble before the wind.

Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; none are like Your works.

I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I am like a feeble man;

free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom You remember no more; and by Your hand they are cut off.

They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me.

For who in the sky can be ranked with Jehovah? Who among the mighty is like Jehovah?

O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, who is a strong Jehovah like You? And Your faithfulness is round about You?

It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in the heavens. Selah.

How long, Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever? Shall Your wrath burn like fire?

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The hills melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of Jehovah of the whole earth.

For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.

My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mixed my drink with weeping,

My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.

They shall perish, but You shall endure; yea, all of them shall become old like a garment; like a robe You shall change them, and they shall be changed;

who satisfies your mouth with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

covering Yourself with light as with a robe; and stretching out the heavens like a curtain;

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.

But He raises up the poor from affliction and sets families like a flock.

As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

Who is like Jehovah our God, who dwells on high,

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

O mountains that skipped like rams, O little hills like lambs?

The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

Their heart is without feeling, like fat; but I delight in Your Law.

For I am like a wineskin in the smoke; I do not forget Your Precepts.

You put away all the wicked of the earth like waste; therefore I love Your testimonies.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant; for I do not forget Your Commandments.

Jerusalem is built like a city that is all joined together as one;

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

A Song of degrees. They who trust in Jehovah shall be like Mount Zion; it is not shaken, but remains forever.

A Song of degrees. When Jehovah turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons shall be like olive plants around your table.

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which dries up before it grows up,

Surely I have behaved and have quieted my soul, as one weaned by its mother; my soul on me is like one weaned.

It is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard, Aaron's beard, that went down to the mouth of his garments;

like the dew of Hermon that came down on the mountains of Zion; for there Jehovah commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

Those who make them are like them, everyone who trusts in them.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts after You like a thirsty land. Selah.

Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.

Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.

so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;

He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.

He casts forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?

when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.

Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.

He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks;

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

Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion.