Psalms 90:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.””
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BSBPD
“You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 90:3 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Job 34:14If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
- Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Psalms 146:4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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