Psalm 146:4

Good News Translation

When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

Genesis 6:17

I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,

Job 14:10

But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?

Job 14:21

Our children win honor, but we never know it, nor are we told when they are disgraced.

Job 17:1

The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.

Job 17:11

My days have passed; my plans have failed; my hope is gone.

Job 27:3

as long as God gives me breath,

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the purposes of the nations; he keeps them from carrying out their plans.

Psalm 90:3

You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their loves, their hates, their passions, all died with them. They will never again take part in anything that happens in this world.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

Lamentations 4:20

They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen, the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.

Daniel 5:23

You acted against the Lord of heaven and brought in the cups and bowls taken from his Temple. You, your noblemen, your wives, and your concubines drank wine out of them and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. But you did not honor the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet I do proclaim a message of wisdom to those who are spiritually mature. But it is not the wisdom that belongs to this world or to the powers that rule this world—powers that are losing their power.