He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.

For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.

We have become like those You never ruled over,
like those not called by Your name.

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How desolate the city sits [that] was full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.

The appearance of the wheels and their construction [was] like [the] appearance of beryl, and {they all looked alike}, and their appearance and their construction [was] {like a wheel within a wheel}.

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

Wherefore, as I live, declareth Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab, like Sodom, shall become, and, the sons of Ammon, like Gomorrah, a possession for the thorn, and a pit of salt, Yea a desolation, unto times age-abiding: The remnant of my people, shall make of them a prey, and, the residue of my nation, shall inherit them.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that the keeper makes.

They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.

"Let my enemy be like [the] wicked and my opponent like [the] unrighteous,

Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me} like cheese?

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

{I also have insight} like you; I am not more inferior than you. And {who does not know things like these}?

For the land that you are about to enter to inherit isn't like the land of Egypt that you just left, where you plant a seed and irrigate it with your feet like a vegetable garden.

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.

I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.

They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone set in array, like a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

And I looked, and look! On the expanse that [was] above the head of the cherubim [something] like a stone of sapphire, [and] like [the] appearance of [the] shape of a throne it appeared above them.

Thou didst blow with thy wind they were covered by the sea, - They rolled like lead, into the waters so wide. Who is, like unto thee, among the mighty O Yahweh?

And you must bring out your baggage like [the] baggage of an exile by day before their eyes, and you must go out in the evening before their eyes like {those who go into exile}.

It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer [is] silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your charms, with which you hunt the souls there like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that you hunt like birds.

{He is like} a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

And I ground them like dust {in the wind}, I emptied them out like mud of [the] streets.

and it [is] like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run [its] course.

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

He makes the deep boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

“Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me.
He has set me aside like an empty dish;
he has swallowed me like a sea monster;
he filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has vomited me out,”

All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!

And the king made silver like stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars like the sycamore trees in the valley for abundance.

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come near you.

Your righteousness [is] {like the mighty mountains}, your judgments [like the] great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.

Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

But as for me, like [the] deaf I cannot hear, and [I am] like [the] mute [who] cannot open his mouth.

Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.

"May all of your enemies perish like this, LORD! But may those who love him be like the ascending sun in its strength!" Then the land enjoyed quiet for 40 years.

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish -- vanish like smoke.

[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.

Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

Then the woman went to tell her husband. She said, "A man of God appeared to me. He looked like what an angel of God would look like very frightening. I didn't ask him where he had come from and he didn't tell me his name.

With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him.

All the bed whereon she lieth during all the days of her flow, like her bed in her removal, shall be to her, - and, every thing whereon she sitteth, shall be, unclean, like the uncleanness in her removal;

Like [the] flock of [the] sanctuary, like the flock of Jerusalem at its festival, so the desolate cities will be filled with flocks of people; and they will know that I [am] Yahweh.'"

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

And the second lamb thou shalt offer between the two evenings; with the like oblation as that of the morning, and the like drink-offering, shalt thou offer it as an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah.

Like [the] moon it will be steadfast forever, and [like] an enduring witness in the sky.'" Selah

You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.

The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it.

Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy powerful hand; for what God is in the heavens or in the earth that can do like to thy works, and like to thy might?

a memorial unto the sons of Israel, That no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, shall draw near to offer incense before Yahweh, - lest he become like Korah and like his assembly, As spake Yahweh by the hand of Moses with regard thereto.

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.

And from me {is set forth} a decree that any people, nation, or language that [may] utter criticism against their God--[the God of] Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego--will be broken into pieces and their house will be made like ruins. {For} there is not another God who is able to rescue like this [God]."

And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.

For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.