Genesis 3:19
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.”
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Genesis 3
2 songs meet this passage
“It's ashes to ashes again”
Half-Truism · The Offspring
resonates with Genesis 3:19
The dust-to-dust reality is biblical, but here it's used to shrug off meaning rather than to spur reflection on what endures.
“Shatter me with your touch, oh, Lord, return me to dust”
Ordinary · Alex Warren
strains against Genesis 3:19
The return-to-dust language belongs to humanity's relationship with God and mortality, not a romantic/sexual thrill, revealing how far the song stretches sacred imagery.
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