Verse 3

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

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.