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Psalms 90:5
5You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in 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.
- 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 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:
Context of Psalms 90:5
3You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals!” 4For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours. You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning. 6In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered. 7We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
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 9:26It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
- Job 22:16They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.
- Job 27:20Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
- Isaiah 8:7Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels
- Jeremiah 46:7“Who is this, rising like the Nile at floodtime, overflowing all the land?
- Psalms 73:20When you arise, O Lord, you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at dreams in the morning.
- Isaiah 29:7All the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream! Those who are attacking her walls will vanish like a vision in the night.
- Psalms 103:15Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
- Isaiah 40:6A voice said, “Shout!” I asked, “What should I shout?” “Shout that people are like the grass. Their beauty fades as quickly as the flowers in a field.
- James 1:10And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field.
- 1 Peter 1:24As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades.
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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