Psalms 90:5
You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Majority 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 →