'Down' in the Bible

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.

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!