Psalm 90:5

New Living Translation

You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.

Cross References

Job 20:8

They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.

Job 4:20

They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.

Job 9:26

It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Psalm 73:20

When you arise, O Lord, you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at dreams in the morning.

Isaiah 38:12

My life has been blown away like a shepherd’s tent in a storm. It has been cut short, as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom. Suddenly, my life was over.

Isaiah 38:13

I waited patiently all night, but I was torn apart as though by lions. Suddenly, my life was over.

Isaiah 40:6

A voice said, “Shout!” I asked, “What should I shout?” “Shout that people are like the grass. Their beauty fades as quickly as the flowers in a field.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers and the flowers fade beneath the breath of the Lord. And so it is with people.

1 Peter 1:24

As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades.