Genesis 18:27
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Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
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Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!