Genesis 18:27

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

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

Ezra 9:6

saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Job 30:19

God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 144:3

O Lord, what is man that thou dost regard him, or the son of man that thou dost think of him?

Psalm 8:4

what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Luke 18:1

And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”