Psalms 90:5
3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
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- BSB
- You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- KJV
- Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- WEB
- You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
- ASV
- Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- DARBY
- Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
- BLB
- You sweep them away; they are in their sleep like the grass that sprouts up in the morning.
- ÅB
- Du skyller dem bort, de blir som en søvn. Om morgenen er de som det groende gress;
- OTB
- Du skyller dem bort som en flom, de sovner;
Om morgenen er de som gress som fornyer seg. - B1930
- Du skyller dem bort, de blir som en søvn. Om morgenen er de som det groende gress;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 40:6
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
Read in contextJob 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
Read in contextPsalms 73:20
Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
Read in context1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
Read in contextPsalms 103:15–16
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
Read in contextJob 27:20–21
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:7–8
the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
Read in contextJob 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
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