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.

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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

    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:

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  • Job 22:16

    Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

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  • Psalms 73:20

    As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

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  • 1 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:

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  • Psalms 103:15–16

    As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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  • Job 27:20–21

    Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

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  • Isaiah 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:

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  • Job 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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