Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'dust' occurs 156 times in the standard works.

26 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'dust' in the standard works and contain 16.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 8:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 29:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 26:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 9:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 3:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 3:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 12:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 101 1 102
Gen. 8 0 8
Ex. 4 0 4
Lev. 2 0 2
Num. 2 0 2
Deut. 4 0 4
Josh. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 3 1 4
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Job 20 0 20
Ps. 13 0 13
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 17 0 17
Lam. 2 0 2
Ezek. 5 0 5
Dan. 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 2 0 2
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 1 0 1
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 7 0 7
BM 36 6 42
DC 6 0 6
PGP 6 0 6
TOTAL 156 7 163

Isa. 2:10
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

Isa. 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. 25:12
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Isa. 26:5
For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Isa. 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isa. 29:4
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Isa. 29:5
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Isa. 34:7
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Isa. 34:9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Isa. 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isa. 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Isa. 41:2
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

Isa. 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Isa. 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

Isa. 52:2
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isa. 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.