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Like grass they wither quickly;
    like green plants they wilt away.(A)

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    [a]you wash them away;(A)
They sleep,
    and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.
In the morning it blooms only to pass away;
    in the evening it is wilted and withered.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 90:5 You wash them away: the Hebrew of Ps 90:4–5 is unclear.
  2. 90:6 It is wilted and withered: the transitory nature of the grass under the scorching sun was proverbial, cf. Ps 129:6; Is 40:6–8.

The grass withers, the flower wilts,
    when the breath of the Lord blows upon it.”
“Yes, the people is grass!

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