all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

The Lord watches ¹  from heaven; he sees all people. ² 

He abandoned ¹  the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men.

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

I rashly declared, ¹  “All men are liars.”

rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, ¹  and delighting ²  in its people. ³ 

Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, ¹  and increases the unfaithful ²  among men. ³ 

A foolish scheme ¹  is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people. ² 

The Lord says to Edom, ¹  “I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind.

In him was life, ¹  and the life was the light of mankind. ² 

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. ¹ 

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made ¹  of gold, silver, ²  bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

When the Most High ¹  gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, ²  he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly. ³ 

There is a generation whose teeth are like ¹  swords ²  and whose molars ³  are like knives to devour ⁴  the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

The sounds of battle ¹  will resound to the ends of the earth. For the Lord will bring charges against the nations. ²  He will pass judgment on all humankind and will hand the wicked over to be killed in war.’ ³  The Lord so affirms it! ⁴ 

“I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) ¹  I will remove ²  humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

An oracle of the word of the Lord concerning the land of Hadrach, ¹  with its focus on Damascus: ²  The eyes of all humanity, ³  especially of the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord,

From one man ¹  he made every nation of the human race ²  to inhabit the entire earth, ³  determining their set times ⁴  and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, ⁵ 

among whom ¹  all of us ²  also ³  formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath ⁴  even as the rest… ⁵ 

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.” ¹