Psalms 146:4

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Psalms 146:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

3 Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

6 the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 104:29

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Genesis 2:7

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.

Genesis 6:17

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

Job 14:10

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 17:1

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Psalms 90:3

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Genesis 3:19

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.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 14:21

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

Job 17:11

My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Lamentations 4:20

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

1 Corinthians 2:6

Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.