“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.”
The swiftness of human life: "You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning." The metaphor of grass—growing in morning light and withered by evening—becomes the paradigm for human brevity. Life is transient like a dream.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:5
1. This Psalm is entitled, “The prayer of Moses the man of God,” through whom, His man, God gave the law to His people, through whom He freed them from the house of slavery, and led them forty years through the wilderness. Moses was therefore the Minister of the Old, and the Prophet of the New Testament. For “all these things,” says the Apostle, “happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the world come.” 1 Corinthians…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a reflection on this verse
No reflections on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!