Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like dirt in the streets.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.

All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

“What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground.

Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him, And His enemies will lick the dust.

He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;

O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.

For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

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

He raises the poor out of the dust, And lifts the needy out of the ash heap,

ד DALETH

My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.

While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primal dust of the world.

All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty.

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust.

For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.

Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

You shall be brought down, You shall speak out of the ground; Your speech shall be low, out of the dust; Your voice shall be like a medium’s, out of the ground; And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

“Moreover the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones Like chaff that passes away; Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness.”