Verse Comparison: Psalms 90:5
American Standard Version
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Amplified® Bible
You carry away [these disobedient people, doomed to die within forty years] as with a flood; they are as a sleep [vague and forgotten as soon as they are gone]. In the morning they are like grass which grows up--
Contemporary English Version
You bring our lives to an end just like a dream. We are merely tender grass
Darby English Version
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
Good News Bible
You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
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.
New American Standard Bible
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.
New International Version
You sweep men away in the sleep of death;
they are like the new grass of the morning-
New King James Version
You carry them away like a flood;
They are like a sleep.
In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they resemble grass which sprouts anew.
Revised Standard Version
Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
