He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield

Of David.

To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.

I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away!

All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O Lord.

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.

Your Throne, O God, Is Forever

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.

My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.

Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.

How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!

They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.

Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?

You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.

like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.

For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,

You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil.

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.

they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.

but he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.

He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Who Is like the Lord Our God?

Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!

Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?

Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.

They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

The Lord Surrounds His People

A Song of Ascents.

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

Restore Our Fortunes, O Lord

A Song of Ascents.

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb!

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.

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

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!

It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them.

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?