Psalm 104:29

Praise To Yahweh For His Creation And Providence

²⁸ You give to them, they gather it up;
You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
²⁹ You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.

Hide Your Face

Return to Dust

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

Job 34:14-15

“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

Psalm 30:7

O Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong;
You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will come upon them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?’

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Psalm 146:4

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

Job 10:9

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

Job 13:24

“Why do You hide Your face
And consider me Your enemy?

Job 34:29

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,
That is, in regard to both nation and man?—

Acts 17:25

nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

Romans 8:20-22

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope