Psalm 146:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Who breathing his last, returns to the earth; that day all his planning comes to nothing.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they panic. Take away their breath, they perish and return to the dust.

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plan of nations, frustrates the designs of peoples.

Job 27:3

So long as I still have life breath in me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Job 17:11

My days pass by, my plans are at an end, the yearning of my heart.

Job 14:21

If their children are honored, they are not aware of it; or if disgraced, they do not know about them.

Daniel 5:23

you have rebelled against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels of his temple brought before you, so that you and your nobles, your consorts and your concubines, might drink wine from them; and you praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, that neither see nor hear nor have intelligence. But the God in whose hand is your very breath and the whole course of your life, you did not glorify.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed—our very lifebreath!— was caught in their snares, He in whose shade we thought to live among the nations.

Isaiah 2:22

As for you, stop worrying about mortals, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for of what worth are they?

Psalm 90:3

You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, my days finished, my burial at hand.

Job 14:10

But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him; when a mortal expires, where then is he?

Genesis 6:17

I, on my part, am about to bring the flood waters on the earth, to destroy all creatures under the sky in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. Never again will they have part in anything that is done under the sun.