5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.


In Context

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

3 You turn man to destruction, saying, |Return, you children of men.|

4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Psalm 90:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

90:5You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning-

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

90:5things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

90:5Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

90:5You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.