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5Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}.
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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:
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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:
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…
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