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Psalms 90:5 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Psalms 90:5Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 90:56 words
HebrewMeaning
זְ֭רַמְתָּ/םzəramətām
you flood themverbH2229
pour out
שֵׁנָ֣הšēnāh
sleepnounH8142
יִהְי֑וּyihəyw
they areverbH1961
altogether · be · accomplished · committed ···
בַּ֝/בֹּ֗קֶרbabōqer
in the morningpronH1242
early · morning · morrow
כֶּ/חָצִ֥ירkeḥāṣiyr
like grasspronH2682
hay · herb · leek
יַחֲלֹֽףyaḥălōp
which it sprouts upverbH2498
alter · change · cut off · go on forward ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 90 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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