Psalm 90:5

New International Reader's Version

Yet you sweep people away, and they die. They are like new grass that grows in the morning.

Cross References

Job 20:8

Like a dream they will fly away. They will never be seen again. They will be driven away like visions in the night.

Job 22:16

They were carried off even before they died. Their foundations were washed away by a flood.

Job 4:20

Between sunrise and sunset they are broken to pieces. Nobody even notices. They disappear forever.

Job 9:26

They speed along like papyrus boats. They are like eagles swooping down on their food.

Psalm 73:20

A dream goes away when a person wakes up. Lord, it will be like that when you rise up. It will be as if those people were only a dream.

Isaiah 38:12

My body is like a shepherd’s tent. It has been pulled down and carried off. My life is like a piece of cloth that I’ve rolled up. You have cut it off from the loom. In a short period of time you have brought my life to an end.

Isaiah 38:13

I waited patiently until sunrise. But like a lion you broke all my bones. In a short period of time you have brought my life to an end.

Isaiah 40:6

Another messenger says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What should I cry?” “Cry out, ‘All people are like grass. They don’t stay faithful to me any longer than wildflowers last.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass dries up. The flowers fall to the ground. That happens when the Lord makes his wind blow on them. So people are just like grass.

1 Peter 1:24

It is written, “All people are like grass. All their glory is like the flowers in the field. The grass dries up. The flowers fall to the ground.