13 Bible Verses about Creatures Returning To Dust
Most Relevant Verses
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 spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.
“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,
All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.
But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust,
And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away;
And it will happen instantly, suddenly.
“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?
My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.
Your dead will live;
Their corpses will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
