Psalms 90:5
Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.
Cross References
Job 9:26They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food.
Job 22:16Who were snatched away before the time, and, a stream, washed away their foundation?
Psalms 73:20As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.
Isaiah 8:7now therefore, lo! the Lord is about to bring up against them the waters, strong and many, of the River [="Euphrates"], even the king of Assyria and all his glory,—and he shall rise over all his channels, and flow over all his banks;
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling, hath been broken up. And is stripped from me, like a shepherd’s tent,—I have rolled up—as a weaver—my life From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, [I said] —Thou wilt finish me.
Isaiah 40:6A voice saying Cry! And one said—What should I cry? All flesh, is grass, And, all the grace thereof, 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 →