Psalms 104:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • Deut 31:17 : 17 At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time,‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Job 13:24 : 24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
  • Rom 8:20-22 : 20 For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:30
    84%

    30When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

  • Job 34:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 104:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

    28You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.

  • Ps 146:4
    77%

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

  • Ps 90:3
    76%

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

  • Job 4:9
    76%

    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

  • Eccl 12:7
    75%

    7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

  • Eccl 3:20
    74%

    20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

  • Job 14:10
    73%

    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

  • Ps 104:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

    9You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

  • Job 30:22
    72%

    22You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

  • Gen 3:19
    72%

    19By 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.”

  • Ps 78:39
    72%

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

  • Job 34:20
    72%

    20In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

  • Ps 103:14-16
    3 verses
    72%

    14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

    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.

  • Job 21:26
    71%

    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • Ps 90:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

    6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

  • Ps 73:19
    71%

    19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

  • Ps 144:4
    71%

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

  • Job 14:12
    71%

    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • Isa 2:22
    71%

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

  • Ps 135:17
    71%

    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

  • Job 6:17
    71%

    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

  • Ps 80:16
    70%

    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • Ps 107:26
    70%

    26They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.

  • Job 40:13
    70%

    13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

  • Job 14:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

    20You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

  • Exod 15:10
    70%

    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • Ps 104:32
    70%

    32He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

  • Isa 26:14
    70%

    14The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

  • Ps 104:20
    70%

    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

  • Job 4:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

    21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

  • Job 12:10
    70%

    10in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

  • Ps 39:10
    69%

    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • Job 14:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

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

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 17:1
    69%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Job 36:14
    69%

    14They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

  • Job 24:19
    69%

    19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • Ps 17:14
    69%

    14LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.