Psalm 90:5

New American Bible - revised edition

you wash them away; They sleep, and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.

Cross References

Job 20:8

Like a dream he takes flight and cannot be found; he fades away like a vision of the night.

Job 22:16

They were snatched before their time; their foundations a river swept away.

Job 4:20

Morning or evening they may be shattered; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 9:26

They shoot by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping upon its prey.

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream after waking, Lord, dismissed like shadows when you arise.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent, is struck down and borne away from me; You have folded up my life, like a weaver who severs me from the last thread. From morning to night you make an end of me;

Isaiah 38:13

I cry out even until the dawn. Like a lion he breaks all my bones; from morning to night you make an end of me.

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, “Proclaim!” I answer, “What shall I proclaim?” “All flesh is grass, and all their loyalty like the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it.” “Yes, the people is grass!

1 Peter 1:24

for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts;