Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
6In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
Cross References
Job 9:26They hasten along like pirate ships: like the eagle that stoopeth down upon his food.
Job 22:16Who were shrivelled up before their time, whose foundation was flooded away like a river;
Psalms 73:20As a dream after awaking, O Lord, reject thou in wrath their image.
Isaiah 8:7Yea therefore behold, the Lord bringeth up over them the strong and many waters of the river,—the king of Assyria, and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and step over all his banks;
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling is broken down, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off, like a weaver, my life; with pining sickness will he snatch me away: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.
Isaiah 40:6A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as 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 →