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Psalm 90

Psa. 90:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou carriest them away as with a flood
zaram (Hebrew #2229)
to gush (as water)
KJV usage: carry away as with a flood, pour out.
Pronounce: zaw-ram'
Origin: a primitive root
; they are as a sleep
shehah (Hebrew #8142)
from 3462; sleep
KJV usage: sleep.
Pronounce: shay-naw'
Origin: or shena (Psa. 127:2) {shay-naw'}
: in the morning
boqer (Hebrew #1242)
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
KJV usage: (+) day, early, morning, morrow.
Pronounce: bo'-ker
Origin: from 1239
they are like grass
chatsiyr (Hebrew #2682)
grass; also a leek (collectively)
KJV usage: grass, hay, herb, leek.
Pronounce: khaw-tseer'
Origin: perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard
w which μgroweth up
chalaph (Hebrew #2498)
properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change
KJV usage: abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.
Pronounce: khaw-laf'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 40:6• 6The 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: (Isa. 40:6)
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is changed.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Thou.
Job 9:26• 26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. (Job 9:26)
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Job 22:16• 16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: (Job 22:16)
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Job 27:20‑21• 20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
 21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. (Job 27:20‑21)
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Isa. 8:7‑8• 7Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
 8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. (Isa. 8:7‑8)
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Jer. 46:7‑8• 7Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
 8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. (Jer. 46:7‑8)
as a sleep.
Psa. 73:20• 20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. (Psa. 73:20)
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Isa. 29:7‑8• 7And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
 8It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. (Isa. 29:7‑8)
morning.
Psa. 103:15‑16• 15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)
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Isa. 40:6• 6The 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: (Isa. 40:6)
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James 1:10‑11• 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
 11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. (James 1:10‑11)
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1 Peter 1:24• 24For 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: (1 Peter 1:24)
groweth up.
or, is changed.
• As to man in time, He sets man aside with a word, and restores him. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 90-93” by J.N. Darby)
• A world that seems to be established forever is carried away by a flood. (“Psalms 90” by H. Smith)
• With all their brave show of glory and power, men perish like grass. (“Psalms 90” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up: