Psalm 103:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Job 10:9

Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.

Job 13:25

Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.

Job 7:21

Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Isaiah 29:16

This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: "You did not make me." Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, "You do not understand."