Psalm 90:5 {89:5}
Good News Translation
You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

New Revised Standard Version
You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

Contemporary English Version
You bring our lives to an end just like a dream. We are merely tender grass

New American Bible
you wash them away; They sleep, and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

thou

Job 9:26 They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.

Job 22:16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Job 27:20,21 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night: . . .

Isaiah 8:7,8 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks. . . .

Jeremiah 46:7,8 Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers? . . .

as a sleep

Psalm 73:20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Isaiah 29:7,8 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it. . . .

morning

Psalm 103:15,16 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . .

Isaiah 40:6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

groweth up.

Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
4For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night, 5Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.6In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.…
Cross References
Job 14:2
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Job 14:12
So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.

Job 20:8
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Job 27:20
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

Psalm 76:5
All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

Psalm 92:7
When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Psalm 102:4
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15
Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

Isaiah 64:6
And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Psalm 90:4
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