Psalm 104:29

New English Translation

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Psalm 146:4

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

Psalm 30:7

O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.

Psalm 90:3

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

Deuteronomy 31:17

At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’