“You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 104 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.