Psalms 90:5

Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

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In The King James Version

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

In Context

4For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.

6which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.

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Cross References

Psalms 73:20Like a dream, when one wakes, shall they be, whose phantoms the waker despises.

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 →

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