lan Warner
90/5 often refers to the book of Psalms in the Bible. Below you will find different versions of the verse, a breakdown as well as the full chapter.
Different Versions of Psalms 90/5
Psalm 90/5 KJV
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalm 90/5 NCV
5 While people sleep, you take their lives. They are like grass that grows up in the morning.
Psalm 90/5 NIV
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—they are like the new grass of the morning:
Psalm 90/5 NKJV
5 You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
Psalm 90/5 NLV
5 You carry men away as with a flood. They fall asleep. In the morning they are like the new grass that grows.
The Entire Chapter of Psalm 90 for Context
A prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn people back to dust,
saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
4 A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6 In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
10 Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16 May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Breakdown of Psalms 90/5
The full context of the verse needs to be understood by reading the whole chapters. It’s about the grandness of God. We as humans can’t fully grasp or understand how big our God is. The amount of power he has is not something our small minds can get and yet the author still tries to help us understand. When we think of the time of a day, for God a 1000 years could pass because the feeling of time is so different for God.
When you get to verse 5 it’s comparing our lives to sleep. It’s similar to sleep for these four reasons:
- In regard of the shortness of it.
- In regard of the easiness of being put out of it.
- In regard of the many means to disquiet and break it off.
- With regard to the many errors in it.
