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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 104:29

But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Corruption;   Death;   God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Body;   Corruption;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Holy Spirit;   Sending and Those Sent;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Death;   Providence;   Psalms, the Book of;   Soul;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   God;   Nature;   Revelation;   Spirit;   Weather;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Body;   Life;   Person, Personhood;   Spirit;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Death;   Providence;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Dust;   Leviathan;   Life;   Wind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallelujah;   Kingdom of God;   Life;   Nature;   Praise;   Providence;   Psalms;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gallery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Dust;   Earth;   Holy Spirit;   Languages of the Old Testament;   Psychology;   Resurrection;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holy Spirit;   Judaism;   Life;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 21;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.
English Revised Version
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath they die, and return to their dust.
Update Bible Version
You hide your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
New Century Version
When you turn away from them, they become frightened. When you take away their breath, they die and turn to dust.
New English Translation
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
World English Bible
You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
Amplified Bible
You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their breath, they die And return to their dust.
English Standard Version
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But whanne thou schalt turne awey the face, thei schulen be disturblid; thou schalt take awei the spirit of them, and thei schulen faile; and thei schulen turne ayen in to her dust.
Berean Standard Bible
When You hide Your face, they panic; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Contemporary English Version
But when you turn away, they are terrified; when you end their life, they die and rot.
American Standard Version
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
Bible in Basic English
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
Complete Jewish Bible
If you hide your face, they vanish; if you hold back their breath, they perish and return to their dust.
Darby Translation
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.
Easy-to-Read Version
When you turn away from them, they become frightened. When you take away their breath, they die, and their bodies return to the dust.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hidest Thy face, they vanish;
King James Version (1611)
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled, thou takest away their breath, they die: and returne to their dust.
New Life Bible
They are troubled and afraid when You hide Your face. And when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
New Revised Standard
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if thou hide thy face, they are troubled: if thou take away their breath, they dye and returne to their dust.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed, Thou withdrawest their spirit, They cease to breathe, And, unto their own dust, do they return:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-29) 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.
Revised Standard Version
When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When thou hydest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their spirite, they dye, and are turned agayne to their dust.
Christian Standard Bible®
When you hide your face,they are terrified;when you take away their breath,they die and return to the dust.
Hebrew Names Version
You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
King James Version
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Lexham English Bible
You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Literal Translation
You hide Your face, and they are troubled; You gather their breath, and they expire and return to their dust.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But when thou hydest thy face, they are soroufull: yf thou takest awaye their breth, they dye, & are turned agayne to their dust.
New American Standard Bible
You hide Your face, they are terrified; You take away their breath, they perish And return to their dust.
New King James Version
You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire And return to their dust.
Legacy Standard Bible
You hide Your face, they are dismayed;You take away their spirit, they breathe their lastAnd return to their dust.

Contextual Overview

19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down. 20 Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad: 21 even young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God. 22 The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens. 23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour till evening. 24 How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation. 25 So is this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great. 26 There go the ships; and this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it. 27 All wait upon thee, to give them their food in due season. 28 When thou hast given it them, they will gather it; and when thou hast opened thine hand, they shall all be filled with good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hidest: Psalms 30:7, Job 13:24, Job 34:29, Romans 8:20-22

thou takest: Psalms 146:4, Job 34:14, Job 34:15, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Acts 17:25

return: Psalms 90:3, Genesis 3:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:17 - hide my face 2 Samuel 12:15 - struck the child 1 Kings 17:17 - that there was Job 12:10 - the breath Job 14:5 - thou hast Psalms 22:15 - into the Psalms 102:2 - Hide Ecclesiastes 3:19 - as the Ecclesiastes 3:20 - all are Ezekiel 37:5 - I will Daniel 5:23 - in whose James 2:26 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled,.... God may be said to hide his face from the creatures when he withholds their food from them, when there is a scarcity of provisions, a famine in the land; when there is no pasture for them to feed on, nor brooks of water to drink of; then are they troubled or perplexed, as in Joel 1:18 and know not what to do, nor where to go for help, but faint, and sink, and die. So in a spiritual sense when God hides his face from his people, removes his Shechinah, or divine Majesty and Presence, as the Targum here; and withdraws the influences of his grace and Spirit; or when they have no food for their souls, or what they have is not blessed, then are they troubled, Psalms 30:7.

Thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust; their original dust, from whence they sprung, as man himself does; the breath of all is from the Lord; he gives it to his creatures, and when he pleases he takes it away; and when he does, they die and become dust again.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hidest thy face - As if God turned away from them; as if he was displeased with them; as if he withdrew from them the tokens of his friendship and favor.

They are troubled - They are confounded; they are overwhelmed with terror and amazement. The word “troubled” by no means conveys the sense of the original word - בהל bâhal - which means properly to tremble; to be in trepidation; to be filled with terror; to be amazed; to be confounded. It is that kind of consternation which one has when all support and protection are withdrawn, and when inevitable ruin stares one in the face. So when God turns away, all their support is gone; all their resources “fail, and they must die.” They are represented as conscious of this; or, this is what would occur if they were conscious.

Thou takest away their breath - Withdrawing that which thou gavest to them.

They die, and return to their dust - Life ends when thou dost leave them, and they return again to earth. So it is also with man. When God withdraws from him, nothing remains for him “but to die.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:29. Thou hidest thy face — If thou bring dearth or famine on the land, contagion in the air, or any destruction on the provision made by the waters, then beasts, fowl, and fish die, and are dissolved.


 
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