Psalms 90:5

In 11 translations

BSB

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

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

WEB

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

ASV

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

LSV

You have inundated them, they are asleep, || In the morning he changes as grass.

YLT

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

DBY

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:

DRC89:5

Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

GNV

Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:

JPS

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

LXXE89:5

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.Gr. their vanities or rejections.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃

LXX-Br89:5

Τὰ ἐξουδενώματα αὐτῶν ἔτη ἔσονται, τοπρωῒ ὡσεὶ χλόη παρέλθοι·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
• Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
• 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
• Psalms 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
• Job 27:20–21Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night. The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
• James 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So…
• Job 9:26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
• Isaiah 29:7–8All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night, as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then…
• Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
• Isaiah 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks. It will pour into Judah, swirling and…
• Jeremiah 46:7–8Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn? Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’

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