Psalms 90:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Psalms 90:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Psalms 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Topics

Antediluvians Botany Creation Deluge Flood Grass Life

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

This psalm is entitled a prayer of Moses. Where, and in what volume, it was preserved from Moses’s time till the collection of psalms was begun to be made, is uncertain; but, being divinely inspired, it was under a special protection: perhaps it was written in the book of Jasher, or the book of the wars of the Lord. Moses taught the people of Israel to pray, and put words into their mouths which t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-6. Life is like grass, which, though changing under the influence of the night’s dew, and flourishing in the morning, is soon cut down and withereth (Psa 103:15; 1Pe 1:24).