Psalms 90:3

World English Bible (2000)

You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
  • Gen 6:6-7 : 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. 7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
  • Num 14:35 : 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."
  • Job 12:10 : 10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 90:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

    2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

  • Ps 90:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

    5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

    6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Ps 104:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

    30 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

  • Ps 90:9-13
    5 verses
    76%

    9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

    10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

    11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

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

    13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

  • Job 34:15
    75%

    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Ps 89:47
    74%

    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Ps 146:4
    73%

    4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • Lam 5:21
    73%

    21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

  • Ps 73:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

    19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Eccl 12:7
    73%

    7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • Eccl 3:20
    73%

    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Job 14:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

    20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

  • Job 15:13
    72%

    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 7:17
    72%

    17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

    9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

  • Ps 82:7
    72%

    7 Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers."

  • Ps 60:1
    71%

    1 God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

  • Job 10:5
    71%

    5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

  • Ps 89:44-45
    2 verses
    71%

    44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

    45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

  • Gen 3:19
    71%

    19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

  • Hab 1:14
    71%

    14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • Job 14:3
    71%

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Ps 39:5
    71%

    5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

  • Ps 102:24-27
    4 verses
    70%

    24 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

    25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

    26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

    27 But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

  • Hab 1:12
    70%

    12 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

  • Heb 1:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

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

    12 As a mantle, you will roll them up, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years will not fail."

  • Job 14:10
    70%

    10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

  • Ps 39:11
    70%

    11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

  • Ps 104:9
    69%

    9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

  • Job 20:4
    69%

    4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • Ps 85:4
    69%

    4 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

  • Job 17:11
    69%

    11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.