Psalm 104:29 {103:29}
Good News Translation
When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

New Revised Standard Version
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Contemporary English Version
But when you turn away, they are terrified; when you end their life, they die and rot.

New American Bible
When you hide your face, they panic. Take away their breath, they perish and return to the dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

hidest

Psalm 30:7 O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

Job 13:24 Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Job 34:29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Romans 8:20-22 For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope. . . .

thou takes

Psalm 146:4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

Job 34:14,15 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself. . . .

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

Acts 17:25 Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:

return

Psalm 90:3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

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.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
28What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good. 29But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.30Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.…
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.

Deuteronomy 31:17
And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me.

1 Samuel 25:38
And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

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

Job 34:14
If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself.

Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

Psalm 30:7
O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

Psalm 90:3
Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Psalm 146:4
His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

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

Ezekiel 37:5
Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.

Psalm 104:28
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