19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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Remember that you molded me like clay.(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(B)

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Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

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15 all humanity would perish(A) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.(B)

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15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

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then let my enemy pursue and overtake(A) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground(B)
    and make me sleep in the dust.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

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15 My mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,(A)
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;(B)
    you lay me in the dust(C) of death.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:15 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text strength

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

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

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29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

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