Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

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

You end their lives; they sleep.
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.

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.

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.

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Context Readings

Eternal God And Mortal Man

4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. 5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

Psalm 73:20

Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

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,

Job 9:26

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 27:20-21

Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

Isaiah 8:7-8

therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise 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, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Jeremiah 46:7-8

"Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

James 1:10-11

and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

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