Psalms 103:14

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For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.

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  • 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.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?
  • Ps 78:38-39 : 38 Yet He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Time and again, He restrained His anger and did not stir up His full wrath. 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?
  • 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 29:16 : 16 You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will You terrify a wind-driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
  • Job 7:5-7 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers. 6 My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

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    15As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field.

    16The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

    17But from everlasting to everlasting, the Lord's steadfast love is with those who fear Him, and His righteousness is with their children's children.

    18With those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

  • Ps 103:10-13
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    10He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

    11For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him.

    12As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

    13As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

  • Ps 78:39
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    39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3Lord, what is man that You care for him, or a son of man that You think of him?

    4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows the thoughts of man; He knows they are but a breath.

  • Ps 100:3
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    3Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

  • Ps 8:4
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    4When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon, and the stars that You have set in place—

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

    5LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.

  • Ps 44:25
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    25Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If He were to set His heart to it and gather to Himself His spirit and breath,

    15all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  • Job 8:9
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    9for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

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    9Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?

  • Ps 111:4
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    4He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and compassionate.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

  • Isa 64:8-9
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    8Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.

    9Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

  • Job 13:12
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    12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Ps 136:23
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    23He remembered us in our low estate, for His steadfast love endures forever.

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    10The 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.

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    12Teach us to number our days carefully, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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    14I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

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    4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

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    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

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    17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

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    23God understands its way, and He knows its place.

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    1For the director of music. A psalm of David. LORD, You have searched me and You know me.

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    16Do you understand the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?

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    5Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is beyond measure.

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    22Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    1Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

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