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People return to dust in the ground when they die.
    You say, ‘Become dust again, you people.’[a]
For you, a thousand years is only a short time.
They pass as quickly as a day for you,
    or just a few hours in the night.
You cause people's lives to end,
    as a dream finishes when you wake up.
People are like grass that appears in the morning.

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Footnotes

  1. 90:3 See Genesis 2:7.

You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)
A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.(B)
Yet you sweep people away(C) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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