may an enemy pursue and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground
and leave my honor in the dust.Selah

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;
I trample them like mud in the streets.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before Him—
even the one who cannot preserve his life.

“What gain is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise You?
Will it proclaim Your truth?

For we have sunk down to the dust;
our bodies cling to the ground.

May desert tribes kneel before him
and his enemies lick the dust.

He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

You return mankind to the dust,
saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”

For Your servants take delight in its stones
and favor its dust.

For He knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust.

When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile

ד DaletMy life is down in the dust;
give me life through Your word.