Psalm 90:5 “You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the…”

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:

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:

Young's Literal Translation

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

Bible in Basic English

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Cross references

“Thou”

Job 22:16 Job 9:26 Job 27:20 Job 27:21 Isaiah 8:7 Isaiah 8:8

Job 22:16 · BSB

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 9:26 · BSB

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Job 27:20 · BSB

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 27:21 · BSB

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Isaiah 8:7 · BSB

the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

Isaiah 8:8 · BSB

It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

“as a sleep”

Psalm 73:20 Isaiah 29:7 Isaiah 29:8

Psalm 73:20 · BSB

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

Isaiah 29:7 · BSB

All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,

Isaiah 29:8 · BSB

as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion…

“morning”

Isaiah 40:6 1 Peter 1:24 Psalm 103:15 Psalm 103:16 James 1:10 James 1:11

Isaiah 40:6 · BSB

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

1 Peter 1:24 · BSB

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Psalm 103:15 · BSB

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalm 103:16 · BSB

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

James 1:10 · BSB

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

James 1:11 · BSB

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

Also

Job 20:8

Job 20:8 · BSB

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

6in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

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