That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.