עָפָר

But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

…and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

…so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

…all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

…when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

Bury them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.

Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

…then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.

“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

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

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

…before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

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

Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.