You end their lives;[a] they sleep.(A)
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by evening it withers and dries up.(B)

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  1. Psalm 90:5 Or You overwhelm them; Hb obscure

Yet you sweep people away(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.(B)

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

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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30 For you will become like an oak
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.(A)

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30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves,(A)
    like a garden without water.

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30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

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