13 Bible Verses about Creatures Returning To Dust

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.

You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

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

“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],
And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.

But the multitude of your enemies [that assault you] will become like fine dust,
And the multitude of the tyrants like the chaff which blows away;
And it will happen in an instant, suddenly [that your enemy is destroyed].

“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”

“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

“[Crush and] hide them in the dust together;
Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].

My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.

Your dead will live;
Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.

then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.