'Ground' in the Bible

may an enemy pursue and overtake me;may he trample me to the groundand leave my honor in the dust.Selah

The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

They advance against me; now they surround me.They are determinedto throw me to the ground.

I ground them like wind-swept dust; I emptied them out like dirt in the street.

My foot stands on level ground;I will praise the Lord in the assemblies.

For we have sunk down to the dust;our bodies cling to the ground.

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

He turned [the] sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him.

I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.

May he be like the rain that descends on mown grass, like showers sprinkling on the ground.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land.

They were destroyed at En-dor;they became manure for the ground.

Truth sprouts up from the ground, while righteousness looks down from the sky.

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand [his ground] in the battle.

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

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom,The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem,Who said “Down, down [with her]To her very foundation.”

As when the one plows and breaks open the ground [and the soil scatters behind him],Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol [by the injustices of the wicked].

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.

Teach me to do Your will,for You are my God.May Your gracious Spiritlead me on level ground.

When his breath leaves him,he returns to the ground;on that day his plans die.

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