Psalm 103:14

The Forgiving God

¹³ As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
¹⁴ For He knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;

He Remembered

Knows Our Frame

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 7:5-7

My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.
My skin forms scabs and then oozes.

Job 7:21

Why not forgive my sin
and pardon my transgression?
For soon I will lie down in the grave.
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.

Job 10:9

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

Job 13:25

Will You frighten a wind-driven leaf?
Will You chase after dry straw?

Psalm 78:38-39

Yet He was compassionate;
He atoned for their guilt
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash all His wrath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is.
Have You created everyone for nothing?

Isaiah 29:16

You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?