Psalm 104:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: Thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ When You hide Your face, they are troubled and dismayed; when You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.

Common English Bible

²⁹ But when you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and he slaughtered their fish.

Psalm 104:29 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Psalm 146:4

When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.

Psalm 90:3

You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

Psalm 30:7

By your favor, O Lord, you had established me as a strong mountain; you hid your face; I was dismayed.

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?

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?