He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion ¹  like a young ox. ² 

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, ¹  where even the light ²  is like darkness.” ³ 

Let them disappear ¹  like water that flows away! ²  Let them wither like grass! ³ 

Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, ¹  he ²  will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat. ³ 

The depths have covered them, ¹  they went down to the bottom ²  like a stone.

I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; ¹  its features ²  are dyed ³  like a garment.

My brothers ¹  have been as treacherous ²  as a seasonal stream, ³  and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams ⁴  that flow away. ⁵ 

at the scent ¹  of water it will flourish ²  and put forth ³  shoots like a new plant.

Why do you pursue me like God does? ¹  Will you never be satiated with my flesh? ² 

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire; ¹ 

It makes its tail stiff ¹  like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Its heart ¹  is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

If I had publicized these thoughts, ¹  I would have betrayed your loyal followers. ² 

He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; ¹  as secure as the earth, which he established permanently. ² 

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, ¹  so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown ¹  to them!

So ¹  I will pounce on them like a lion; ²  like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

I will signal for them and gather them, for I have already redeemed them; then they will become as numerous as they were before.