Genesis 18:27

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Pray without ceasing.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

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

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

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

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”

Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

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

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

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

You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

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

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.

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

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.