Psalm 104:29

New International Reader's Version

When you turn your face away from them, they are terrified. When you take away their breath, they die and turn back into dust.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat a lot to produce the food you eat. You were made out of the ground. You will return to it when you die. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Job 10:9

Remember, you molded me like clay. So are you going to turn me back into dust?

Job 13:24

Why do you turn your face away from me? Why do you think of me as your enemy?

Job 34:29

But if he remains silent, who can judge him? If he turns his face away, who can see him? He rules over individual people and nations alike.

Psalm 146:4

When they die, they return to the ground. On that day their plans come to nothing.

Psalm 30:7

Lord, when you gave me your help, you made Mount Zion stand firm. But when you took away your help, I was terrified.

Psalm 90:3

You turn human beings back to dust. You say to them, “Return to dust.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Remember your Creator before you return to the dust you came from. Remember him before your spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Acts 17:25

He is not served by human hands. He doesn’t need anything. Instead, he himself gives life and breath to all people. He also gives them everything else they have.

Deuteronomy 31:17

In that day I will become angry with them. I will desert them. I will turn my face away from them. And they will be destroyed. Many horrible troubles and hard times will come on them. On that day they will say, ‘Trouble has come on us. Our God isn’t with us!’