Lexicon :: Strong's H6083 - ʿāp̄ār

Iron is taken from the ground,

and copper is smelted from ore.

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

every living thing would perish together

and mankind would return to the dust.

when the dust hardens like cast metal

and the clods of dirt stick together?

She abandons her eggs on the ground

and lets them be warmed in the sand.

Hide them together in the dust;

imprison them in the grave.[fn]

He has no equal on earth —

a creature devoid of fear!

Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them;

I am dust and ashes.[fn][fn]

may an enemy pursue and overtake me;

may he trample me to the ground

and leave my honor in the dust.Selah

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;

I trample them[fn] like mud in the streets.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;

my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

You put me into the dust of death.

“What gain is there in my death,

if I go down to the Pit?

Will the dust praise you?

Will it proclaim your truth?

For we have sunk down to the dust;

our bodies cling to the ground.

May desert tribes kneel before him

and his enemies lick the dust.

He rained meat on them like dust,

and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

For your servants take delight in its stones

and favor its dust.

For he knows what we are made of,

remembering that we are dust.

When you hide your face,

they are terrified;

when you take away their breath,

they die and return to the dust.

He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the trash heap

My life is down in the dust;

give me life through your word.

“before he made the land, the fields,

or the first soil on earth.

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,

and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Go into the rocks

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the LORD

and from his majestic splendor.

The high-walled fortress will be brought down,

thrown to the ground, to the dust.

For he has humbled those who live in lofty places —

an inaccessible city.

He brings it down; he brings it down to the ground;

he throws it to the dust.

You will be brought down;

you will speak from the ground,

and your words will come from low in the dust.

Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;

your speech will whisper from the dust.

The wild oxen will be struck[fn] down with them,

and young bulls with the mighty bulls.

Their land will be soaked with[fn] blood,

and their soil will be saturated with fat.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand

or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?

Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure

or weighed the mountains on a balance

and the hills on the scales?

“Who has stirred up someone from the east?

In righteousness he calls him to serve.[fn][fn]

The LORD hands nations over to him,

and he subdues kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

like wind-driven stubble with his bow.

“Go down and sit in the dust,

Virgin Daughter Babylon.

Sit on the ground without a throne,

Daughter Chaldea!

For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.

Kings will be your guardians

and their queens[fn] your nursing mothers.

They will bow down to you

with their faces to the ground

and lick the dust at your feet.

Then you will know that I am the LORD;

those who put their hope in me

will not be put to shame.

“Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!

Take your seat, Jerusalem.

Remove the bonds[fn] from your neck,

captive Daughter Zion.”

“The wolf and the lamb will feed together,[fn]

and the lion will eat straw like cattle,

but the serpent’s food will be dust!

They will not do what is evil or destroy

on my entire holy mountain,”

says the LORD.

The elders of Daughter Zion

sit on the ground in silence.

They have thrown dust on their heads

and put on sackcloth.

The young women of Jerusalem

have bowed their heads to the ground.

Let him put his mouth in the dust —

perhaps there is still hope.

“For the blood she shed[fn] is still within her.

She put it out on the bare rock;

she didn’t pour it on the ground

to cover it with dust.

“They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.

“Because of you, they raise their voices

and cry out bitterly.

They throw dust on their heads;

they roll in ashes.

Many who sleep in the dust

of the earth will awake,

some to eternal life,

and some to disgrace and eternal contempt.

They trample the heads of the poor

on the dust of the ground

and obstruct the path of the needy.

A man and his father have sexual relations

with the same girl,

profaning my holy name.

Don’t announce it in Gath,

don’t weep at all.

Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

They will lick the dust like a snake;

they will come trembling out of their hiding places

like reptiles slithering on the ground.

They will tremble in the presence of the LORD our God;

they will stand in awe of you.