Psalms 103:14
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
BSB
ASV
For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.
KJV
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
So do not forget the weak. Remember, Lord, that you have made me weak; remember that you have formed me from dust. How can I stand unless you always strengthen this clay, so that my strength may come forth from your face? When you turn your face away, everything is thrown into turmoil; if you pay attention, woe is me; you have nothing in me to look at, except the stains of sin; it is neither useful to abandon me, nor is it beneficial to behold me; for while we are seen, we offend.
Observe, (1.) Whom he pities-- those that fear him, that is, all good people, who in this world may become objects of pity on account of the grievances to which they are not only born, but born again. Or it may be understood of those who have not yet received the spirit of adoption, but are yet trembling at his word; those he pities, Jer. xxxi.
For he knoweth our frame. He knows how we are made, for he made us. Our make and build, our constitution and temperament, our prevailing infirmity and most besetting temptation he well perceives, for he searches our inmost nature. He remembereth that we are dust. Made of dust, dust still, and ready to return to dust. We have sometimes heard of "the Iron Duke, " and of iron constitutions, but the words are soon belied, for the Iron Duke is dissolved, and other men of like rigour are following to the grave, where "dust to dust" is an appropriate requiem.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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.”
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
leads to
By 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.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
