Psalms 90:3

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

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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 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 104:29 : 29 When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
  • 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.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
  • Gen 6:6-7 : 6 The LORD regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended. 7 So the LORD said,“I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth– everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”
  • Num 14:35 : 35 I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
  • Job 12:10 : 10 in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

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  • Ps 90:1-2
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    1Book 4(Psalms 90-106) A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

    2Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.

  • Ps 90:4-6
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    4Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

    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 104:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Ps 90:9-13
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    76%

    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

    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.

    13Turn back toward us, O LORD! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

  • Job 34:15
    75%

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

  • Ps 89:47
    74%

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

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    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 146:4
    73%

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

  • Lam 5:21
    73%

    21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

  • Ps 73:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

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

  • Eccl 12:7
    73%

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

  • Eccl 3:20
    73%

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

  • Job 14:19-20
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    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.

  • Job 15:13
    72%

    13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • Job 7:17
    72%

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

  • Job 10:8-9
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    72%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

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

  • Ps 82:7
    72%

    7Yet you will die like mortals; you will fall like all the other rulers.”

  • Ps 60:1
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  • Job 10:5
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    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Ps 89:44-45
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    44You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.

    45You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame.(Selah)

  • Gen 3:19
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    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.”

  • Hab 1:14
    71%

    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

  • Job 14:3
    71%

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

  • Ps 39:5
    71%

    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 102:24-27
    4 verses
    70%

    24I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

    25In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

    26They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.

    27But you remain; your years do not come to an end.

  • Hab 1:12
    70%

    12Habakkuk Voices Some Concerns LORD, you have been active from ancient times; my sovereign God, you are immortal. LORD, you have made them your instrument of judgment. Protector, you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment.

  • Heb 1:11-12
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    70%

    11They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

    12and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

  • Job 14:10
    70%

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

  • Ps 39:11
    70%

    11You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)

  • Ps 104:9
    69%

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

  • Job 20:4
    69%

    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

  • Ps 85:4
    69%

    4Restore us, O God our deliverer! Do not be displeased with us!

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    69%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.