Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
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.
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.
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 Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. 5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 40:6
A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:
Job 22:16
Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Psalm 73:20
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
1 Peter 1:24
because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,
Job 9:26
They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.
Job 20:8
As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Job 27:20-21
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
Psalm 103:15-16
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
Isaiah 8:7-8
Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.
Isaiah 29:7-8
And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!
James 1:10-11
and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;