5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death- they are like the new grass of the morning:
5 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
5 Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass
5 You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
5 You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 90:5
Commentary on Psalm 90:1-6
(Read Psalm 90:1-6)
It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on Israel in the wilderness, Numbers 14. The favour and protection of God are the only sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evil world. Christ Jesus is the refuge and dwelling-place to which we may repair. We are dying creatures, all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God is an ever-living God, and believers find him so. When God, by sickness, or other afflictions, turns men to destruction, he thereby calls men to return unto him to repent of their sins, and live a new life. A thousand years are nothing to God's eternity: between a minute and a million of years there is some proportion; between time and eternity there is none. All the events of a thousand years, whether past or to come, are more present to the Eternal Mind, than what was done in the last hour is to us. And in the resurrection, the body and soul shall both return and be united again. Time passes unobserved by us, as with men asleep; and when it is past, it is as nothing. It is a short and quickly-passing life, as the waters of a flood. Man does but flourish as the grass, which, when the winter of old age comes, will wither; but he may be mown down by disease or disaster.