KJV 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.
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Psalm 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
WEB World English Bible
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Surrounding context — Psalm 90
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 are] like grass [which] groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
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Isaiah 40:6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:Psalm 73:20As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.1 Peter 1:24For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:Psalm 103:15-16[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.Job 22:16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:Job 27:20-21Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.Isaiah 29:7-8And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.Job 9:26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.Isaiah 8:7-8Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:James 1:10-11But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.Jeremiah 46:7-8Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
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