Psalms 90:5

God sweeps human lives away like a flood; they are as fleeting as grass that sprouts at dawn.

Cross-references · 12

• Isa 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.
• Ps 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
• Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
• Job 27:20–21Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
• Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
• Isa 29:7–8All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
• Job 9:26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
• Isa 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
• Jas 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
• Jer 46:7–8Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

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