He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
Psalm 90:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In the morning it flourishes and springs up; in the evening it is mown down and withers. American Standard Version (1901) In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Common English Bible True, in the morning it thrives, renewed, but come evening it withers, all dried up. Catholic Public Domain Version before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil. |
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
But you, LORD, will abide forever; your renown endures to all generations.
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
The voice of one saying, *Cry!* One said, *What shall I cry?* *All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.