New King James Version
Psalms 90:5
5You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
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.
- New International Version (NIV)Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:
- 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 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 man to destruction, And say, “Return, O children of men.” 4For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night. You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: 6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers. 7For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:5 word by word
זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 90:5
- Job 9:26They pass by like swift ships, Like an eagle swooping on its prey.
- Job 22:16Who were cut down before their time, Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
- Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.
- Isaiah 8:7Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them The waters of the River, strong and mighty— The king of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up over all his channels And go over all his banks.
- Jeremiah 46:7“Who is this coming up like a flood, Whose waters move like the rivers?
- Psalms 73:20As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.
- Isaiah 29:7The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, Even all who fight against her and her fortress, And distress her, Shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
- Isaiah 40:6The voice said, “Cry out!” And he said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
- James 1:10but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
- 1 Peter 1:24because “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,
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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