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

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 40:6

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.

Isaiah 40:7

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

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,