Psalms 90:5
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Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
Cross References
Job 9:26They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
Job 22:16Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
Psalms 73:20As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
Isaiah 8:7For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:
Isaiah 38:12My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
Isaiah 40:6A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:2-7
God's Care of His People; Frailty of Human Life. 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 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. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they… Read the whole commentary →