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Psalm 90:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 90:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 You snatch them away like a dream;
they are like the grass of the field,[a]
6 which at dawn flourishes and is green
but by nightfall is withered and dry.
7 [b]We have been brought low by your anger
and overwhelmed with terror by your wrath.
Footnotes
- Psalm 90:5 The life of people is like that of the new grass that appears at dawn and disappears by nightfall under the burning rays of the sun (see Pss 103:16f; 129:6; Job 14:1f; Isa 40:6f). They have no longevity.
- Psalm 90:7 Short though it is, human life is filled with trouble because of sin and God’s righteous wrath.
