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Psalms 90:5
5Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:
Psalms 90:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
- New King James Version (NKJV)You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
- New Living Translation (NLT)You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.
Context of Psalms 90:5
3You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” 4A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: 6In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. 7We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
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זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 90:5
- Job 9:26They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.
- Job 22:16They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
- Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
- Isaiah 8:7therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks
- Jeremiah 46:7“Who is this that rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters?
- Psalms 73:20They are like a dream when one awakes; when you arise, Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.
- Isaiah 29:7Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night—
- Psalms 103:15The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;
- Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
- James 1:10But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.
- 1 Peter 1:24For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
Commentaries on Psalms 90:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood - Life is compared to a stream, ever gliding away; but sometimes it is as a mighty torrent, when by reason of plague, famine, or war, thousands are swept away daily. In particular cases it is a rapid stream, when the young are suddenly carried off by consumptions, fevers, etc.; this is the flower that flourisheth in the morning, and in the evening is cut down and withered. The whole of life is like a sleep or as a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood - The original here is a single verb with the suffix - זרמתם zerametâm The verb - זרם zâram - means, to flow, to pour; then, to pour upon, to overwhelm, to wash away. The idea is, that they were swept off as if a torrent bore them from the earth, carrying them away without regard to order, rank, age, or condition. So death makes no discrimination. Every day that passes, multitudes of every age, sex, condition…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6Unlike God, humans are mortal and temporary.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. Life is like grass, which, though changing under the influence of the night's dew, and flourishing in the morning, is soon cut down and withereth (Psa 103:15; 1Pe 1:24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 90
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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