Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
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.
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.
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
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
by evening it withers and dries up.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 40:6
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
Job 22:16
and their foundations
Psalm 73:20
Lord, when arising, You will despise their image.
1 Peter 1:24
For
and all its glory
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
Job 9:26
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Job 20:8
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Job 27:20-21
a storm
Psalm 103:15-16
he blooms like a flower of the field;
Isaiah 8:7-8
the mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates River—
the king of Assyria and all his glory.
It will overflow its channels
and spill over all its banks.
Isaiah 29:7-8
going out to battle against Ariel—
all the attackers, the siege works against her,
and those who oppress her—
will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.
Jeremiah 46:7-8
like rivers whose waters churn?
James 1:10-11
but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.