Psalm 90:5

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–

Cross References

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream and will not be found; yes, he will be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 22:16

Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream [during the flood]?

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed; without anyone noticing it they perish forever.

Job 9:26

They are passed away like the swift rowboats made of reeds, or like the eagle that swoops down on the prey.

Psalm 73:20

As a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, so, O Lord, when You arouse Yourself [to take note of the wicked], You will despise their outward show.

Isaiah 38:12

My [fleshly] dwelling is plucked up and is removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web]; [the Lord] cuts me free from the loom; from day to night You bring me to an end.

Isaiah 38:13

I thought and quieted myself until morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day to night You bring me to an end.

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, Cry [prophesy]! And I said, What shall I cry? [The voice answered, Proclaim:] All flesh is as frail as grass, and all that makes it attractive [its kindness, its goodwill, its mercy from God, its glory and comeliness, however good] is transitory, like the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely [all] the people are like grass.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like [the] flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off,