45 Bible Verses about dust
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All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all shall turn to dust again.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all beasts and above every animal of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life;
He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts the destitute out of the dunghill;
And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye but dost not consider the beam that is in thine own eye?
And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, depart out of that house or city and shake off the dust of your feet.
He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.
O hope of Israel! LORD, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; and those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord of heaven.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes;
Moreover the multitude of thy enemies that shall come from afar shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the strong ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
And thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as that of a spiritist, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Shake thyself from the dust; arise and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you, when ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet in testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent; as the serpents of the earth, they shall tremble in their holes; they shall be filled with fear of the LORD our God and shall also fear thee.
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land dust and ashes; from the heavens it shall come down upon thee, until thou art destroyed.
All those that are fat upon earth shall eat and worship; all those that go down to the dust shall bow before him; and no one can keep his own soul alive.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he causes the isles to disappear as dust.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth; I stamped them as the mire of the street and spread them abroad.
Then I beat them as small as the dust before the wind: I scattered them as the dirt in the streets.
For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;
His spirit shall go forth, he shall return to his earth; in that very day all his thoughts shall perish.
Jod He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou be able to see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Thy dead shall live, and together with my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
and lay siege to the fortress of thy high walls; he shall humble it and bring it down to the ground, even to the dust.
And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but not perceive the beam that is in thine own eye?
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and prepared the heavens with his palm and with three fingers measured the dust of the earth and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills with weights?
What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, said the LORD of the hosts.
From Thematic Bible
Dust » Man made from
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
Dust » Placed on the head as a sign of grief
Then Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, putting dust upon their heads.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept; and each one rent his mantle and sprinkled dust upon his head toward heaven.
Jod The elders of the daughter of Zion sat upon the ground and are silent: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the daughters of Jerusalem hung their heads down to the ground.
and shall cause their voice to be heard upon thee and shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes.
And they cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her riches! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Dust » Put on the head in mourning
Then Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, putting dust upon their heads.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept; and each one rent his mantle and sprinkled dust upon his head toward heaven.
And David went up by the ascent of Mount Olivet and wept as he went up and had his head covered, and he went barefoot. And all the people that were with him covered each one his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
And running out of the battle, a man of Benjamin came to Shiloh that same day with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.
Dust » Thrown or shaken off in anger
And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, depart out of that house or city and shake off the dust of your feet.
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto Iconium.
Dust » Shaking from feet
And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, depart out of that house or city and shake off the dust of your feet.
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto Iconium.
Dust » Casting of, in anger
And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the side of the mountain over against him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and cast dust.
Topics on Dust
Creatures From Dust
Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Creatures Returning To Dust
Ecclesiastes 3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all shall turn to dust again.
Dust On The Head
Revelation 18:19And they cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her riches! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Dust, Figurative Use
Genesis 3:19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Dust, Literal Use
Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Numerous As Dust
Genesis 28:14and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt multiply to the west and to the east and to the Aquilon and to the Negev; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Wiping Dust
Luke 9:5And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.