Psalm 103:14 {102:14}
Good News Translation
He knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust.

New Revised Standard Version
For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

Contemporary English Version
because he knows we are made of dust.

New American Bible
For he knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

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For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

he knoweth

Psalm 78:38,39 But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath. . . .

Psalm 89:47 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

we are dust

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Job 7:5-7,21 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together. . . .

Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust

Job 13:25 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Context
Bless the LORD, O My Soul
13As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: 14For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:15Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Psalm 39:4
I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Psalm 136:23
For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 3:20
And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Isaiah 29:16
This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.

Psalm 103:13
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