Psalms 103:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
  • Ps 78:38-39 : 38 But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry. 39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Isa 29:16 : 16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
  • Job 7:5-7 : 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again. 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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    18 If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

  • Ps 103:10-13
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    10 He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.

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    13 As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

  • Ps 78:39
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    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

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  • Ps 94:11
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    11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

  • Ps 100:3
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  • Ps 8:4
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  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

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    9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

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