Psalms 146:4

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

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

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

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

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

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

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

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.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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

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

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

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.”

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

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.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

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.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

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

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

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

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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

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?’

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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?

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

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

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

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?”

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

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.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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

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.”

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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

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

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

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.

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

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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