O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, "Thou art my God, my goods are nothing like unto thee."

like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places.

He maketh my feet like hart's feet, and setteth me up on high. {TYNDALE: And maketh my feet as swift as a hind's, and setteth me fast upon my high hold.}

Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death.

{A Psalm of David} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD, my strength; think no scorn of me, lest, if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon also, and Sirion, like a young unicorn.

I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.

For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle, if they will not obey thee.

Let thy merciful kindness, O LORD, be upon us, like as we do put our trust in thee.

All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him? Yea, the poor, and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him?"

Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; thy judgments are like the great deep. Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.

As for me, I was like a deaf man and heard not; as one that were dumb, not opening his mouth.

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

The hill of Zion is like a fair plant, whereof all the land rejoiceth: upon the north side lieth the city of the great King.

Like as we have heard, so see we in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God. God upholdeth the same forever. Selah.

They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts - and becometh like unto them.

Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.

As for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God, my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever.

I will always give thanks unto thee, for that thou hast done: and I will hope in thy name, for thy saints like it well.

And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

Let them fall away like water that runneth a pace; and when they shoot their arrows, let them be rooted out.

Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.

Let them go to and fro, and run about the city, howling like dogs.

Let them go to and fro, and run about the city, howling like dogs.

How long will ye imagine mischief against every man? Ye shall be slain, all of the sort of you; yea, as a tottering wall shall ye be, and like a broken hedge.

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.

Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melteth at the fire, so shall the ungodly perish at the presence of God.

Though ye have lain among the sheep-folds, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold.

Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, and great things are they that thou hast done; O God, who is like unto thee?

He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool, even as the drops that water the earth.

There shall be a heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth.

For they are in no peril of death, but stand fast like a palace.

They come in no misfortune like other folk; neither are they plagued like other men.

Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

Thou leddest thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle:

He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that it gushed out like the rivers.

He rained down manna upon them as thick as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock.

But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow.

So the LORD awakened as one out of sleep, and like a giant refreshed with wine.

And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure.

Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them.

LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?

{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, a Psalm of Asaph} Hear, O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Jacob like a flock of sheep; show thyself, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the tyrants."

Make their princes like Oreb and Zeeb. Yea, make all their princes like as Zebah and Zalmunna,

O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.

Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD, there is not one that can do as thou doest.

free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side.

For who is he among the clouds, that may be compared unto the LORD? Yea what is he among the gods, that shall be like unto the LORD?

O LORD God of hosts, who is like unto thee in power? Thy truth, most mighty LORD, is on every side.

Thou hast subdued Egypt, like one that is wounded; thou scatterest thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm.

His seed shall endure forever, and his throne is like as the sun before me.

LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?

As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

But my horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn; and shall be anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The hills melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.

For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an owl in a broken wall.

My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear him.

Thou deckest thyself with light, as it were with a garment, and spreadest out the heaven like a curtain -

Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills.

They reel to and fro, they stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

yet helpeth he the poor out of misery, and maketh him a household like a flock of sheep.

He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: yea it went into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.

Who is like unto the LORD our God, that hath his dwelling so high;

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep.

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? And ye little hills, like young sheep?

They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

They came about me like bees, and are extinguished even as the fire among the thorns; for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do not I forget thy statutes.

Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

I go astray, like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

{A song of the stairs} When the LORD turneth again the captivity of Zion, then were we like unto them that dream.

Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table.

But I refrain my soul and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother; Yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard; even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.

Like the dew of Hermon, which fell upon the hill of Zion. For there the LORD promised his blessing, and life forevermore.