Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
New American Standard Bible
In the morning they are like
King James Version
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Holman Bible
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
International Standard Version
You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.
American Standard Version
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Amplified
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Darby Translation
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
King James 2000
You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.
Modern King James verseion
You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.
NET Bible
You bring their lives to an end and they "fall asleep." In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
New Heart English Bible
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, they are like grass that shooteth up,
Webster
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth.
World English Bible
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Themes
Grass » Illustrative » Of shortness and uncertainty of life
natural Life » Is compared to » A sleep
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 90:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eternal God And Mortal Man
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up. 6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field.
Job 22:16
Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Psalm 73:20
As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.
1 Peter 1:24
Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,
Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job 27:20-21
Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Isaiah 8:7-8
now therefore, behold, LORD brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks,
Isaiah 29:7-8
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who is this that rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
James 1:10-11
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.