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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”(A)

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14 If he should take back his spirit[a] to himself
    and gather to himself his breath,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 34.14 Heb his heart his spirit

15 all flesh would perish together,
    and all mortals return to dust.(A)

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You turn us[a] back to dust
    and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 90.3 Heb humankind

16 For I will not continually accuse,
    nor will I always be angry,
for then the spirits would grow faint before me,
    even the souls that I have made.(A)

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Jerusalem’s Victory

12 An Oracle.

The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:(A)

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