You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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