45 Bible Verses about dust

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Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place. All came from the dust and all return to dust.

Genesis 3:14

So Jehovah God said to the serpent: Because you have done this you are cursed above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Matthew 7:3

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye? Do you not consider the beam in your own eye?

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among the princes. He causes them to inherit a throne of glory (honor). The pillars of the earth are Jehovah's. He sets the world on them.

Jeremiah 17:13

You will put to shame all that forsake you, O Jehovah, the hope of Israel. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, for they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living water.

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said: Indeed now, I who am only dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah:

Isaiah 29:5

Your cruel enemies will be swept away like dust in a windstorm. It will be sudden and unexpected like chaff in the wind.

Isaiah 29:4

From deep in the earth, you will call out for help. Your voice will sound like a mumble (indistinct voice) from out of the dust. It will be faint like a whisper.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.

Job 10:9

Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

Mark 6:11

When someone will not listen to you leave that house and shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to the householder.

Micah 7:17

They will lick up the dust like a serpent. They will come trembling out of their hole like crawling things of the earth. They will approach Jehovah our God with fear and be afraid because of you.

Deuteronomy 28:24

Jehovah will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Psalm 22:29

All prosperous people on earth will eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust will kneel in front of him, even those who are barely alive.

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.

Isaiah 40:15

Truly the nations are like a drop in a bucket! They are regarded as dust on the scales! He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

2 Samuel 22:43

They were crushed as small as the dust of the earth. I stamped them down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

Psalm 18:42

I beat them into powder as fine as the dust blown by the wind. I threw them out as though they were dirt on the streets.

Psalm 146:4

His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust for perhaps there exists hope.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Nahum 1:3

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power! He will by no means reprieve the guilty (leave them unpunished). Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. The clouds are the dust of his feet.

Job 40:13

Bury them all in the dust together and shroud their faces in the grave.

Isaiah 25:12

He will bring down Moab's high-fortified walls, level them, and throw them into the dust on the ground.

Luke 6:41

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye? Yet you do not consider the beam in your own eye.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?

Psalm 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it declare your truth?

Malachi 4:3

When I act you will tread down the wicked. They will be like dust under your feet, Jehovah of Hosts said.

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Dust » Man made from

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.

Dust » Placed on the head as a sign of grief

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

Job 2:12

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.

Ezekiel 27:30

And they will make their voice heard over you and will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying: 'Woe, woe to the great city. All that had ships in the sea became rich by her wealth. In one hour she was made desolate.'

Dust » Put on the head in mourning

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

Job 2:12

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

2 Samuel 15:30

David went up the slope of the Mount of Olives. He was barefoot and crying. He covered his head to show his sorrow. Everyone with him was crying. They covered their heads too.

1 Samuel 4:12

A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran all the way from the battlefield to Shiloh and arrived there the same day. To show his grief he had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head.

More verses: 2 Samuel 1:2

Dust » Thrown or shaken off in anger

Acts 13:51

So they shook the dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

Dust » Shaking from feet

Acts 13:51

So they shook the dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

Dust » Casting of, in anger

2 Samuel 16:13

David and his men continued along the road. Shimei kept up with them. He walked on the hillside. He cursed and threw stones and dirt at them as he went.

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Creatures Returning To Dust

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place. All came from the dust and all return to dust.

Dust On The Head

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying: 'Woe, woe to the great city. All that had ships in the sea became rich by her wealth. In one hour she was made desolate.'

Numerous As Dust

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust on the earth. You will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. Every family on earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.

Wiping Dust

Luke 9:5

If someone does not receive you, when you leave the city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against that person.

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