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Psalms 90:6

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

KJV

a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incursu, et dæmonio meridiano.

Vulgate

ἀπὸ πράγματος διαπορευομένου ἐν σκότει, ἀπὸ συμπτώματος καὶ δαιμονίου μεσημβρινοῦ.

LXX

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

ASV

בַּ֭/בֹּקֶר יָצִ֣יץ וְ/חָלָ֑ף לָ֝/עֶ֗רֶב יְמוֹלֵ֥ל וְ/יָבֵֽשׁ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֹּ֔קֶר
bqr
noun · 214×
הֹבִ֥ישׁ
hbysh
verb · 73×
יַחֲלֹֽף
ychlp
verb · 28×
יָצִ֥יץ
ytsyts
verb · 8×
ם
m
verb · 36×
עָֽרֶב
'rb
noun · 134×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 17:11 — In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
  • Jas 1:11 — For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in hi
  • Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Matt 6:30 — Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
  • Ps 32:4 — For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 89:15 — Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
  • 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: