Psalm 146:4

New Century Version

When people die, they are buried. Then all of their plans come to an end.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

Genesis 6:17

I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Job 14:10

But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground; we take our last breath and are gone.

Job 14:21

Their children are honored, but they do not know it; their children are disgraced, but they do not see it.

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken; the days of my life are almost gone. The grave is waiting for me.

Job 17:11

My days are gone, and my plans have been destroyed, along with the desires of my heart.

Job 27:3

as long as I am alive and God’s breath of life is in my nose,

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away from them, they become frightened. When you take away their breath, they die and turn to dust.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord upsets the plans of nations; he ruins all their plans.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back into dust. You say, “Go back into dust, human beings.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

After people are dead, they can no longer love or hate or envy. They will never again share in what happens here on earth.

Isaiah 2:22

You should stop trusting in people to save you, because people are only human; they aren’t able to help you.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s appointed king, who was our very breath, was caught in their traps. We had said about him, “We will be protected by him among the nations.”

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have set yourself against the Lord of heaven. You ordered the drinking cups from the Temple of the Lord to be brought to you. Then you and your royal guests, your wives, and your slave women drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that are not really gods; they cannot see or hear or understand anything. You did not honor God, who has power over your life and everything you do.

1 Corinthians 2:6

However, I speak a wisdom to those who are mature. But this wisdom is not from this world or from the rulers of this world, who are losing their power.