Psalm 90:5

The Passion Translation

One day we will each be swept away into the sleep of death. We glide along through the tides of time— so quickly gone, like a dream that fades at dawn, like glistening grass that springs up one day and is dry and withered the next, ready to be cut down!

Cross References

Isaiah 40:6

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I ask, “What should I say?” “All people are as frail as grass, and their elegance is like a wilting wildflower.

1 Peter 1:24

Human beings are frail and temporary, like grass, and the glory of man fleeting like blossoms of the field. The grass dries and withers and the flowers fall off,

Psalm 73:20

soon to disappear like a dream when one awakes. When the rooster crows, Lord God, you’ll despise their life of fantasies.

Isaiah 38:12

My body is being folded up and taken from me, taken down like a shepherd’s tent. He cuts my life short, as a weaver cuts his cloth from the loom and rolls it up. From day to night, you bring my life to an end.

Isaiah 38:13

I felt as though a lion were crushing all my bones as I cried out for help until morning. From day to night, you bring my life to an end.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of Yahweh blows upon it; the people are just like grass!