He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Psalm 90:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You carry away [these disobedient people, doomed to die within forty years] as with a flood; they are as a sleep [vague and forgotten as soon as they are gone]. In the morning they are like grass which grows up– American Standard Version (1901) Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. Common English Bible You sweep humans away like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning. Catholic Public Domain Version His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night. |
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream:
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it
They are passed away as the swift ships: As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
As a dream when one awaketh; So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Mine age is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: