Psalm 90:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ You turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn [to the earth]!

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Common English Bible

³ You return people to dust, saying, “Go back, humans,”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word.

Psalm 90:3 Cross References

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.”

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.

Psalm 104:29

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

Job 12:10

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.

Numbers 14:35

I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”