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Psalms 90:3

Psalms 90:3 is verse 3 of Psalms chapter 90, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

World English Bible

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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Psalms 90:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

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

4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

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Hebrew words

תָּשֵׁ֣בyou return אֱ֭נוֹשׁhumankind עַדto דַּכָּ֑אcrushed matter וַ֝תֹּ֗אמֶרand you said שׁ֣וּבוּreturn בְנֵיO children of אָדָֽםhumankind

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Cross-references

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.

Psalms 146:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

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.”

Genesis 6:6
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Numbers 14:35
I, 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 12:10
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Job 34:14
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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