Psalms 90:5
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Read in contextJob 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Read in contextPsalms 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Read in context1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Read in contextPsalms 103:15–16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Read in contextJob 27:20–21
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:7–8
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Read in contextJob 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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