Verse 15

all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit would faint before me—the breath of life that I created.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me, I would march against them in battle and completely burn them together.
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
  • Ps 90:3-9 : 3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.' 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night. 5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning— 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up. 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.