Psalm 103:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust.

American Standard Version (1901)

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Common English Bible

Because God knows how we’re made, God remembers we’re just dust.

Catholic Public Domain Version

producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Psalm 103:14 Cross References

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Job 13:25

Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, “He did not make me,” or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, “He has no understanding”?