Psalms 90:5
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
6in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
Cross References
Job 9:26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
Isaiah 8:7the 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.
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
Isaiah 40:6A 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.
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 →