'Down' in the Bible

I am poured out like water,And all my bones are out of joint.My heart is like wax;It is melted [by anguish] within me.

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

All the ends of the earth will rememberand turn to the Lord.All the families of the nationswill bow down before You,

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restores my strength. He leads me down the right paths for the sake of his reputation.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Because they do not considerwhat the Lord has doneor the work of His hands,He will tear them down and not rebuild them.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

The Lord looks down from heaven;He observes everyone.

From his dwelling place, he looks down on all the inhabitants of the earth.

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

May their path be dark and slippery, as the messenger of the LORD tracks them down.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

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

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

For Your arrows have sunk into me,and Your hand has pressed down on me.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

and the king will desire your beauty.Bow down to him, for he is your lord.

He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

For when he dies, he will take nothing at all;his wealth will not follow him down.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.

This is why God will bring you down forever.He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

For He has delivered me from every trouble,and my eye has looked down on my enemies.

because of the enemy’s voice,because of the pressure of the wicked.For they bring down disaster on meand harass me in anger.

Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

He reaches down from heaven and saves me,challenging the one who tramples me.SelahGod sends His faithful love and truth.

I am surrounded by lions;I lie down with those who devour men.Their teeth are spears and arrows;their tongues are sharp swords.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

My faithful God will come to meet me;God will let me look down on my adversaries.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

But as for those who seek to destroy me, they will go down to the depths of the earth;

in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

“All the earth will [bow down to] worship You [in submissive wonder],And will sing praises to You;They will praise Your name in song.” Selah.

the earth trembled and the skies poured down rainbefore God, the God of Sinai,before God, the God of Israel.

When you men lie down among the sheepfolds, you are like the wings of the dove covered with silver, with its feathers in glittering gold."

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

May the nomads bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

They set their mouth against the heavens,And their tongue swaggers through the earth.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

They said in their hearts,“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”They burned down every place throughout the landwhere God met with us.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

I will cut down the strength of the wicked, but the strength of the righteous will be lifted up. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.

You are resplendent and majesticcoming down from the mountains of prey.

The clouds poured down water.The storm clouds thundered;Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

things we have heard and knownand that our fathers have passed down to us.

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

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.

And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

There must not be a strange god among you;you must not bow down to a foreign god.