Psalm 90:5

New English Translation

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

Cross References

Job 20:8

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Job 22:16

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

Job 4:20

They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 9:26

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

Isaiah 38:13

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, “Cry out!” Another asks, “What should I cry out?” The first voice responds: “All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,