Psalms 90:5
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
6In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
Cross References
Job 9:26They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.
Job 22:16Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
Isaiah 8:7Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.
Isaiah 38:12My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
Isaiah 40:6A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] As a 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 →