Psalm 90:3

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

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.”

Job 12:10

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

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 146:4

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

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.

Numbers 14:35

I swear that I will do this to you wicked people who have gathered together against me. Here in the wilderness every one of you will die. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”