Psalm 90:3
“Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 90Meaning
Within “Human mortality and passing time,” verse 3 faces human mortality by describing God turning people back to dust and calling humanity to return; this detail advances the unit's argument and should not be detached from the whole psalm.
Read carefully
Read Psalm 90:3 inside its literary unit and the movement of Psalm 90; its imagery and claims are constrained by that context.
Reflection
Respond to the verse's specific emphasis — faces human mortality by describing God turning people back to dust and calling humanity to return — while reading it together with the surrounding lines of Psalm 90.