13 Bible Verses about Creatures Returning To Dust
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Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
"What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.