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You turn us[a] back to dust
    and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”(A)

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  1. 90.3 Heb humankind

19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”(A)

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and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)

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  1. 12.7 Or the spirit

29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
    when you take away their breath, they die
    and return to their dust.(A)

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14 If he should take back his spirit[a] to himself
    and gather to himself his breath,(A)
15 all flesh would perish together,
    and all mortals return to dust.(B)

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  1. 34.14 Heb his heart his spirit

When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
    on that very day their plans perish.(A)

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10 In his hand is the life of every living thing
    and the breath of every human being.(A)

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35 I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”(A)

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And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.(A) So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

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