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Psalms 90:5

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

KJV

Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus : non timebis a timore nocturno ;

Vulgate

οὐ φοβηθήσῃ ἀπὸ φόβου νυκτερινοῦ, ἀπὸ βέλους πετομένου ἡμέρας,

LXX

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

ASV

זְ֭רַמְתָּ/ם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝/בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּ/חָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֹּ֔קֶר
bqr
noun · 214×
וֹ
v
noun · 23×
זֹ֤רְמוּ
zrmv
verb · 2×
חֲצִ֣יר
chtsyr
noun · 21×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַחֲלֹֽף
ychlp
verb · 28×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 7:29 — But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
  • 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  • 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  • Eccl 3:18 — I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
  • Isa 40:6 — The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
  • Isa 40:6 — The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
  • Isa 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
  • Isa 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
  • Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • Jas 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • 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 22:16 — Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
  • Job 27:20 — Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
  • Jonah 4:7 — But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
  • Ps 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
  • Ps 73:20 — As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
  • Ps 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
  • Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
  • Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.