Psalm 90:3 {89:3}
Good News Translation
You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.

New Revised Standard Version
You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

Contemporary English Version
At your command we die and turn back to dust,

New American Bible
You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

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Psalm 104:29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Genesis 6:6,7 It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, . . .

Numbers 14:35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

Job 34:14,15 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself. . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

return ye children of men.

Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
2Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God. 3Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.4For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,…
Cross References
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Job 34:14
If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself.

Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Psalm 104:29
But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Psalm 90:2
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