Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Thou

Job 9:26

“They pass by like the [swift] boats made of reeds,
Like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
Job 22:16

Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
Job 27:20

“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals him away in the night.
Isaiah 8:7

Now therefore, listen carefully, the Lord is about to bring on them the waters of the [Euphrates] River, strong and abundant—
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will rise over all its channels and canals and go far beyond its banks.
Jeremiah 46:7

Who is this that rises up like the Nile [River],
Like the rivers [in the delta of Egypt] whose waters surge about?

As a sleep

Psalm 73:20

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.
Isaiah 29:7

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel (Jerusalem),
Even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,
Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Morning

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For,All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,

General references

Psalm 37:2

For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.