Psalms 90:5 · KJV
“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}”
— Psalms 90:5
For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past, and {as} a watch in the night. {when...: or, when he hath passed them}
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 90 — Context
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past, and {as} a watch in the night. {when...: or, when he hath passed them}
5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Cross References
Isaiah 40:6
The 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:
Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
1 Peter 1:24
For 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: {For: or, For that}
Psalms 103:15-16
{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Job 27:20-21
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle {that} hasteth to the prey. {swift...: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire}