Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 90:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}”
Psalms 90:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past, and {as} a watch in the night. {when...: or, when he hath passed them}
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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