Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.

For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken me according to thy word.