Psalms 90:5
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
BSB
ASV
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
KJV
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
In the morning let it pass like grass, in the morning let it flower and pass away: in the evening let it fall, harden, and wither. O the mysteries of the Scriptures! In the morning let it pass like grass. Our Lord and Savior also speaks in the Gospel about the hay, which springs up in one day and withers in one day.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood - The original here is a single verb with the suffix - זרמתם zerametâm. The verb - זרם zâram - means, to flow, to pour; then, to pour upon, to overwhelm, to wash away. The idea is, that they were swept off as if a torrent bore them from the earth, carrying them away without regard to order, rank, age, or condition. So death makes no discrimination.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood. As when a torrent rushes down the river bed and bears all before it, so does the Lord bear away by death the succeeding generations of men. As the hurricane sweeps the clouds from the sky, so time removes the children of men. They are as a sleep. Before God men must appear as unreal as the dreams of the night, the phantoms of sleep. Not only are our plans and devices like a sleep, but we ourselves are such. "We are such stuff as dreams are made of."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
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A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
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Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
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As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.