Psalms 103:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Ps 78:38-39 : 38 Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury. 39 He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 29:16 : 16 Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
  • Job 7:5-7 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

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  • Ps 103:15-18
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    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

    17But the LORD continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

    18to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

  • Ps 103:10-13
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    10He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.

    11For as the skies are high above the earth, so his loyal love towers over his faithful followers.

    12As far as the eastern horizon is from the west, so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.

    13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on his faithful followers.

  • Ps 78:39
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    39He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

  • Ps 100:3
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    3Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

  • Ps 8:4
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    4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

  • Ps 44:25
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    25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Job 8:9
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    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

  • Job 10:9
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    9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

  • Ps 111:4
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    4He does amazing things that will be remembered; the LORD is merciful and compassionate.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

  • Isa 64:8-9
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    8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

    9LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

  • Job 13:12
    69%

    12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Ps 136:23
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    23to the one who remembered us when we were down, for his loyal love endures,

  • Ps 90:10-12
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    10The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

    11Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

    12So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

  • Ps 113:6
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    6He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.

  • Ps 139:14
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    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

  • Ps 146:4
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    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6Though the LORD is exalted, he looks after the lowly, and humbles the proud from far away.

  • Ps 89:47
    68%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Job 7:17
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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

  • Jer 14:20
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    20LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

  • Job 28:23
    67%

    23God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

  • Ps 139:1
    67%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

  • Job 37:16
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    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • Ps 147:5
    67%

    5Our Lord is great and has awesome power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    67%

    1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Ps 90:3
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    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

  • Ps 102:14
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    14Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.