<p class="poetry">Will<n id="1" /> it<n id="2" /> go down to the barred gates<n id="3" /> of death?p> <p class="poetry">Will<n id="4" /> we descend<n id="5" /> together into the dust?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">As for me, I know that my Redeemer<n id="1" /> lives,p> <p class="poetry">and that as the last<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will stand upon the earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">His bones<n id="1" /> were full of his youthful vigor,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.p>

<p class="poetry">Together they lie down in the dust,p> <p class="poetry">and worms cover over them both.p>

<p class="poetry">and throw<n id="1" /> your gold<n id="2" /> in the dust &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">your gold<n id="3" /> of Ophirp> <p class="poetry">among the rocks in the ravines &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">If he piles up silver like dustp> <p class="poetry">and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,p>

<p class="poetry">all flesh would perish togetherp> <p class="poetry">and human beings would return to dust.p>

<p class="poetry">For she leaves<n id="1" /> her eggs on the ground,p> <p class="poetry">and lets them be warmed on the soil.p>

<p class="poetry">The likes of it is not on earth,p> <p class="poetry">a creature<n id="1" /> without fear.p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore I despise myself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I repent in dust and ashes!p>

<p class="poetry">For we lie in the dirt,p> <p class="poetry">with our bellies pressed to the ground.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He rained down meat on them like dust,p> <p class="poetry">birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he knows what we are made of;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he realizes<n id="2" /> we are made of clay.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">before he made the earth and its fields,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or the beginning<n id="2" /> of the dust of the world.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham asked, &#8220;Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord<n id="1" /> (although I am but dust and ashes),<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;For a ceremonially unclean person you must take<n id="1" /> some of the ashes of the heifer<n id="2" /> burnt for purification from sin and pour<n id="3" /> fresh running<n id="4" /> water over them in a vessel.

<p class="poetry">how much more to those who live in houses of clay,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose foundation is in the dust,p> <p class="poetry">who are crushed<n id="2" /> like<n id="3" /> a moth?p>

<p class="poetry">For evil does not come up from the dust,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor does trouble spring up from the ground,p>

<p class="poetry">as water wears away stones,p> <p class="poetry">and torrents<n id="1" /> wash away the soil,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so you destroy man&#8217;s hope.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">may an enemy relentlessly chase<n id="1" /> me<n id="2" /> and catch me;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">may he trample me to death<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and leave me lying dishonored in the dust.<n id="5" /> (Selah)p>