Psalms 90:5

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

biblegateway Psa 90:5

You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning—

biblegateway Psa 90:5

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

biblegateway Psa 90:5

You sweep people away like dreams that disappear or like grass that springs up in the morning.

biblegateway Psa 90:5

Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass

SABDAweb Psa 90:5

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bibleoremus Psa 90:5

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

biblegateway Psa 90:5

You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:

biblegateway Psa 90:5

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

¹ tn Heb “you bring them to an end [with] sleep.” The Hebrew verb זָרַם (zaram) has traditionally been taken to mean “flood” or “overwhelm” (note the Polel form of a root זרם in Ps 77:17, where the verb is used of the clouds pouring down rain). However, the verb form here is Qal, not Polel, and is better understood as a homonym meaning “to make an end [of life].” The term שֵׁנָה (shenah, “sleep”) can be taken as an adverbial accusative; it is a euphemism here for death (see Ps 76:5-6).