13 Bible Verses about Creatures Returning To Dust
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You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself, all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.
But the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust, and [the] multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by. And it will happen [in] an instant, suddenly.
"What gain [is there] in my {death}, in my going down into [the] pit? Will [the] dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.
Your dead shall live; {their corpses} shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of [the] dust, for your dew [is] {celestial dew}, and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
