'Down' in the Bible

Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

{A Prayer of David.} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

All the nations You have madewill come and bow down before You, Lord,and will honor Your name.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

You will tread upon the lion and cobra,The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

My eyes look down on my enemies;my ears hear evildoers when they attack me.

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.

If the Lord had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

Exalt the LORD our God; worship and bow down at his footstool; He is holy!

My eyes favor the faithful of the landso that they may sit down with me.The one who follows the way of integritymay serve me.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence."

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.

He called down famine against the landand destroyed the entire food supply.

He struck down their vines also and their fig trees,And shattered the trees of their territory.

He struck down every firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their progeny.

Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.

His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.

Therefore He swore to themThat He would cast them down in the wilderness,

He rescued them many times,but they continued to rebel deliberatelyand were beaten down by their sin.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

For He has broken down the bronze gatesand cut through the iron bars.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

He calmed the storm and its waves quieted down.

And they are diminished, and bow down, By restraint, evil, and sorrow.

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

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

O sovereign Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.

who stoops down to lookon the heavens and the earth?

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

"You aggressively attacked me and tried to knock me down, but the Lord helped me.

ד DaletMy life is down in the dust;give me life through Your word.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.

"I will not enter my house, or lie down on my bed,

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

As dew of Hermon -- That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing -- Life unto the age!

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,both man and beast.

He struck down many nationsand slaughtered mighty kings:

to the one who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his loyal love endures,

He struck down great kings        His love is eternal.

to the one who remembered us when we were down, for his loyal love endures,

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites saidthat day at Jerusalem:“Destroy it! Destroy itdown to its foundations!”

I will bow down toward Your holy templeand give thanks to Your namefor Your constant love and truth.You have exalted Your nameand Your promise above everything else.

You know when I sit down and when I stand up;You understand my thoughts from far away.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are!

If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon

May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

Do not let a slanderer stay in the land.Let evil relentlessly hunt down a violent man.

When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Reach down from heaven;rescue me from deep water, and set me freefrom the grasp of foreigners

Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.

The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

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

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

for her house sinks down to deathand her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

How long will you lie down, lazy man? When will you get up from your sleep?

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,A little folding of the hands to lie down and rest”—

When you walk here and there, they will guide you;when you lie down, they will watch over you;when you wake up, they will talk to you.

for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down.

Crossing the street near her corner,he strolled down the road to her house

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.