Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 146:4

He returneth to his earth. The earth —the dust —is "his."

1. It is "his" as that from which he was made: he turns back to what he was, Ge 3:19. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

2. The earth —the dust —the grave is "his", and it is his home —the place where he will abide.

3. It is "his" as it is the only property which he has in reversion. All that a man —a prince, a nobleman, a monarch, a millionaire —will soon have will be his grave, his few feet of earth. That will be his by light of possession, by the fact that for the time being he will occupy it, and not another man! But that, too, may soon become another man's grave, so that even there he is a tenant only for a time; he has no permanent possession even of a grave. —Albert Barnes.