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Summary

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

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Bible References

Thou

Job 9:26
They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Job 22:16
who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?
Job 27:20
Terror will overtake him like a flood, at night, a tornado will sweep him away.
Isaiah 8:7
watch out! The LORD God is about to bring the flood waters of the Euphrates River against them, mighty and strong.
Jeremiah 46:7
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

As a sleep

Psalm 73:20
Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.
Isaiah 29:7
Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Aruel, all that attack her and her fortification and besiege her, will become like a dream, with its visions in the night

Morning

Psalm 103:15
A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,
Isaiah 40:6
A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field.
James 1:10
and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower.
1 Peter 1:24
For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

General references

Psalm 37:2
Indeed, they soon will wither like grass, and like green herbs they will fade away.

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