13 Bible Verses about Creatures Returning To Dust

All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

If he should set his heart upon man, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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

Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.