Psalm 104:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Job 13:24

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

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Psalm 146:4

When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

Psalm 30:7

By your favor, O Lord, you had established me as a strong mountain; you hid your face; I was dismayed.

Psalm 90:3

You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’