Psalms 90:6

In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

In Context

5Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,

7For we are consumed in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed;

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Cross References

Psalms 92:7When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Psalms 102:12But, thou, O Yahweh, age-abidingly wilt remain, And the memorial of thee, to generation after generation.

Matthew 6:30Now, if the grass of the field—which to-day, is, and, to-morrow, into an oven, is cast—God thus adorneth, not much rather, you, little of faith?

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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