Psalm 104:27-30 Part 2 of 2

They all depend on you

    to give them food as they need it.

When you supply it, they gather it.

    You open your hand to feed them,

    and they are richly satisfied.

But if you turn away from them, they panic.

    When you take away their breath,

    they die and turn to dust.

When you give them your breath, life is created,

    and you renew the face of the earth.

When you take away their breath, they die and turn to dust.

Job 7:21 

"Why not just forgive my sin

    and take away my guilt?

For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.

    When you look for me, I will be gone."  (see all chapter 7)

Genesis 3:19  

"By the sweat of your brow

    you will have food to eat

    until you return to the ground

    from which you were made.

For you were made from dust,

    and to dust you will return."  (see all chapter 3)

Job 10:9  

" 'Remember that you made me from dust--

    will you turn me back to dust so soon?' "  (see all chapter 10)

Job 34:14-15  

"If God were to take back his spirit

    and withdraw his breath,

all life would cease,

    and humanity would turn again to dust."  (see all chapter 34)

Psalm 90:3  

You turn people back to dust, saying,

    "Return to dust, you mortals!"  (see all Psalm 90)

 

When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.   

Genesis 2:7  Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.  (see all chapter 2)

Job 33:4  

"For the Spirit of God has made me,

    and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."  (see all chapter 33)

Ezekiel 37:9  But then he said to me, "Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.' " (see verses 1-14)

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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