45 Bible Verses about dust

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

Then the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.

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

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile.
He seats them with noblemen
and gives them a throne of honor.
For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;
He has set the world on them.

Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who abandon You
will be put to shame.
All who turn away from Me
will be written in the dirt,
for they have abandoned
the Lord, the fountain of living water.

The first man was from the earth
and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—

Your many foes will be like fine dust,
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,

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

You will be brought down;
you will speak from the ground,
and your words will come from low in the dust.
Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;
your speech will whisper from the dust.

Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion.”

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

They will lick the dust like a snake;
they will come trembling out of their hiding places
like reptiles slithering on the ground.
They will tremble in the presence of Yahweh our God;
they will stand in awe of You.

The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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.

every living thing would perish together
and mankind would return to the dust.

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

And just as we have borne
the image of the man made of dust,
we will also bear
the image of the heavenly man.

I pulverize them like dust of the earth;
I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.

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

But I know my living Redeemer,
and He will stand on the dust at last.

When his breath leaves him,
he returns to the ground;
on that day his plans die.

Let him put his mouth in the dust—
perhaps there is still hope.

Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;
the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished.
His path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Hide them together in the dust;
imprison them in the grave.

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.

The high-walled fortress will be brought down,
thrown to the ground, to the dust.

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?

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

You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the Lord of Hosts.