Psalms 104:29

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.

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.”

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

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.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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:

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

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

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

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

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

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.

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.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

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

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

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

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.

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.”

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

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

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

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.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

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.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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.

Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

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

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

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.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.