For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.
And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.
And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.
And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.
And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.
In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.
O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.
O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.
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