I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, ¹  and buried ²  my horn ³  in the dust;

Will ¹  it ²  go down to the barred gates ³  of death? Will ⁴  we descend ⁵  together into the dust?”

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

Hide them in the dust ¹  together, imprison ²  them ³  in the grave. ⁴ 

He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. ¹ 

You make mankind return ¹  to the dust, ²  and say, “Return, O people!”

When you ignore them, they panic. ¹  When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath ¹  returns to God who gave it.

Let him bury his face in the dust; ¹  perhaps there is hope.

So after they shook ¹  the dust off their feet ²  in protest against them, they went to Iconium. ³ 

By the sweat of your brow ¹  you will eat food until you return to the ground, ²  for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ³ 

As for your sinful thing ¹  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ²  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

You will fall; while lying on the ground ¹  you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. ²  Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; ³  from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation. ⁴ 

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

For he knows what we are made of; ¹  he realizes ²  we are made of clay. ³ 

ד (Dalet) I collapse in the dirt. ¹  Revive me with your word! ² 

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become ²  gnats ³  throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

For she leaves ¹  her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

Who ¹  can count ²  the dust ³  of Jacob, Or number ⁴  the fourth part of Israel? Let me ⁵  die the death of the upright, ⁶  and let the end of my life ⁷  be like theirs.” ⁸ 

Don’t spread the news in Gath! ¹  Don’t shed even a single tear! ²  In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust! ³