The LORD awoke as though from sleep, like a mighty warrior stimulated by wine.

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Shepherd of Israel, listen! The one who leads Joseph like a flock, the one enthroned on the cherubim, display your glory.

However, as all human beings do, you will die, and like other rulers, you will fall.'

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.

Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.

I am considered as one of those descending into the Pit, like a mighty man without strength,

released to remain with the dead, lying in a grave like a corpse, remembered no longer, and cut off from your power.

Like waters, they engulf me all day long; they surround me on all sides.

For who in the skies compares to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the divine beings?

His dynasty will last forever and his throne will be like the sun before me.

It will be established forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the sky." Interlude

How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire?

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.

All our days pass away in your wrath; our years fade away and end like a sigh.

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.

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

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

Mountains melt like wax in the LORD's presence In the presence of the LORD of all the earth.

For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

I lie awake, yet I am like a bird isolated on a rooftop.

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.

He keeps satisfying you with good things, and he keeps renewing your youth like the eagle's.

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.

You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.

like the covenant he made with Abraham, and his promise to Isaac.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out flowing like a river in the desert.

Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless.

Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock.

He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

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.

Who is like the LORD our God, enthroned on high,

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

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

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

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

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

You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love your decrees.

I find joy at what you have said like one who has discovered a great treasure.

I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come find your servant, for I do not forget your commands. A Song of Ascents

Like a sharp arrow from a warrior, along with fiery coals from juniper trees!

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap. The trap has been broken, and we have escaped.

Those who are trusting in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be overthrown. They remain forever.

When the LORD brought back Zion's exiles, we were like dreamers.

Restore our exiles, LORD, like the streams of the Negev.

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

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

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

It is like precious oil on the head, descending to the beard even to Aaron's beard and flowing down to the edge of his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on Zion's mountains. For there the LORD commanded his blessing life everlasting. A Song of Ascents

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

Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it.

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude

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

For those who oppose me are pursuing my life, crushing me to the ground, making me sit in darkness like those who died long ago.

I stretch out my hands toward you, longing for you like a parched land. Interlude

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,

The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

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

He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes.

He casts down his ice crystals like bread fragments. Who can endure his freezing cold?

He has not dealt with any other nation like this; they never knew his decrees. Hallelujah!

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,

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that grows brighter until the full light of day.

But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.

Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.

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

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

What the righteous person says is like precious silver; the thoughts of the wicked are compared to small things.

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

The person who trusts in his wealth will fall, but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but a wife who puts him to shame is like bone cancer.

Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge, but the path taken by the upright is an open highway.

When a king is pleased, there is life, and his favor is like a cloud that brings spring rain.

A worthless person concocts evil gossip his lips are like a burning fire.

Starting a quarrel is like spilling water so drop the dispute before it escalates.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels as they descend to the innermost parts of the body.

The wealth of a rich person is his fortified city; in his own imagination, it is like a high wall.

An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and his disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

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

A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.

A king's anger is like a lion's roar; anyone who angers him forfeits his life.

When you fix your gaze on it, it's gone, for it sprouts wings for itself and flies to the sky like an eagle.

Surely she lies in wait like a bandit, increasing those who are faithless among mankind.

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