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Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
I am
forsaken among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
All day long they
engulf me
like water; they
enclose me on every side.
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be
likened unto the LORD?
For who in the
skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is
like the LORD?
O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
Thou hast broken
Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
His seed shall
endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
his offspring shall
endure forever, and his throne before Me
like the sun,
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah.
like the moon, established
forever, a faithful witness in the sky.”
Selah How long, LORD?
wilt thou hide
thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
How long, O LORD? Will You hide
Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning
like fire?
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
You
whisk them away in their sleep; they are
like the new grass of the morning—
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do
flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
But You have
exalted my horn
like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been
anointed.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The mountains
melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
For my days are consumed
like smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
I am
like a
pelican of the wilderness: I am
like an
owl of the desert.
I am
like a desert
owl,
like an
owl among the ruins.
I watch, and am as a
sparrow alone upon the house top.
I lie
awake; I am
like a
lone bird on a housetop.
For I have eaten ashes
like bread, and mingled my drink with
weeping,
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
My days are
like a shadow that declineth; and I am
withered like grass.
My days are
like lengthening shadows, and I wither away
like grass.
They shall perish, but thou shalt
endure:
yea, all of them shall wax old
like a garment; as a
vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
Who coverest
thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens
like a
curtain:
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
He opened the rock, and the waters
gushed out; they ran in the dry places
like a river.
He opened a rock, and water
gushed out; it flowed
like a river in the desert.
We have
sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
We have
sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Yet setteth he the poor on high from
affliction, and maketh him families
like a flock.
But He lifts the
needy from
affliction and increases their families
like flocks.
As he clothed himself with
cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his
bowels like water, and
like oil into his bones.
The
cursing that he
wore like a coat, may it
soak into his body
like water, and into his bones
like oil.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a
girdle wherewith he is
girded continually.
I am gone
like the shadow when it declineth: I am
tossed up and down as the
locust.
Let mine
adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a
mantle.
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame
like a
robe.
Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
The mountains
skipped like rams, and the little hills
like lambs.
the mountains
skipped like rams, the hills
like lambs.
Ye mountains, that ye
skipped like rams; and ye little hills,
like lambs?
O mountains, that you
skipped like rams, O hills,
like lambs?
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
They compassed me about
like bees; they are
quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
They
swarmed around me
like bees, but they were
extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
For I am become
like a
bottle in the smoke; yet do I not
forget thy statutes.
Though I am
like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not
forget Your statutes.
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth
like dross: therefore I love thy
testimonies.
All the wicked on earth You discard
like dross; therefore I love Your
testimonies.
I have gone
astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not
forget thy commandments.
I have
strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the
snare of the fowlers: the
snare is broken, and we are escaped.
We have escaped
like a bird from the
snare of the fowler; the net is
torn, and we have
slipped away.
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount
Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Those who trust in the LORD are
like Mount
Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides
forever.
When the LORD turned again the captivity of
Zion, we were
like them that dream.
When the LORD restored the
captives of
Zion, we were
like dreamers.
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
Restore our
captives, O LORD,
like streams in the Negev.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Like arrows in the hand of a
warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth
afore it groweth up:
May they be
like grass on the rooftops, which
withers before it can grow,
Surely I have
behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a
weaned child.
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a
weaned child with his mother,
like a
weaned child is my soul within me.
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;
It is
like fine oil on the head, running down on the
beard, running down Aaron’s
beard over the
collar of his robes.
As the
dew of
Hermon, and as the
dew that descended upon the mountains of
Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for
evermore.
It is
like the
dew of
Hermon falling on the mountains of
Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
They have sharpened their tongues
like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.
Selah.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
May my prayer be set before You
like incense, my
uplifted hands
like the evening offering.
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.
For the enemy has pursued my soul,
crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness
like those long since dead.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a
thirsty land.
Selah.
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You
like a
parched land.
SelahHear 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.
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the
similitude of a palace:
Then our sons will be
like plants
nurtured in their youth, our daughters
like corner pillars carved to
adorn a palace.
He giveth snow
like wool: he scattereth the
hoar frost like ashes.
He spreads the snow
like wool; He scatters the
frost like ashes;
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
Let us
swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
let us
swallow them alive
like Sheol, and whole
like those descending into the Pit.
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for
hid treasures;
if you seek it
like silver and search it out
like hidden
treasure,
But the path of the just is as the
shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they
stumble.
But the way of the wicked is
like the darkest
gloom; they do not know what makes them
stumble.
Deliver
thyself as a
roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Free
yourself,
like a
gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the
snare of the fowler.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
and poverty will come upon you
like a
robber, and need
like a
bandit.
He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a
fool to the correction of the stocks;
He follows her on impulse,
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding into a
trap,
Till a
dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
until an
arrow pierces his liver,
like a bird
darting into a
snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
As
vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the
sluggard to them that send him.
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
Like a gold ring in a pig’s
snout is a beautiful woman who lacks
discretion.
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall
flourish as a branch.
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will
thrive like foliage.
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
The way of the
slothful man is as an
hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
The way of the slacker is
like a
hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a
highway.
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is
like a
scorching fire.
A
merry heart doeth good
like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
The words of a
gossip are
like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own
conceit.
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
A brother
offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are
like the bars of a castle.
An
offended brother is harder to
win than a fortified city, and disputes are
like the bars of a castle.
The king’s wrath is as the
roaring of a lion; but his favour is as
dew upon the grass.
A king’s
rage is
like the
roar of a lion, but his favor is
like dew on the grass.
The fear of a king is as the
roaring of a lion:
whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
The terror of a king is
like the
roar of a lion;
whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
When you
glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and
flies like an eagle to the sky.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Like a
robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In the end it bites
like a
snake and stings
like a
viper.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
Every man shall
kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
An
honest answer given is
like a
kiss on the lips.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
and poverty will come upon you
like a
robber, and need
like a
bandit.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
As an
earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an
obedient ear.
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful
messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a
trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is
like clouds and wind without rain.
Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
