Psalms 90:3
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
BSB
ASV
Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
KJV
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Thou turnest man to destruction - In contradistinction from his own unchangeableness and eternity. Man passes away; God continues ever the same. The word rendered “destruction” - דכא dakkâ' - means properly anything beaten or broken small or very fine, and hence, “dust.” The idea here is, that God causes man to return to dust; that is, the elements which compose the body return to their original condition, or seem to mingle with the earth. Gen 3:19: “dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” The word “man” here, of course, refers to man in general - all people.
Thou turnest man to destruction, or "to dust." Man's body is resolved into its elements, and is as though it had been crushed and ground to powder. And sayest, Return, ye children of men, i.e., return even to the dust out of which ye were taken. The frailty of man is thus forcibly set forth; God creates him out of the dust, and back to dust he goes at the word of his Creator. God resolves and man dissolves. A word created and a word destroys.
The walk8
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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 3 independent paths from here.
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
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.
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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.
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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 3 independent paths from here.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
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.