King James Version

Psalms 90:5

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

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זְ֭רַמְתָּםzeramtampour outזָרַםverb, qal, perfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “pour out”, a completed actionH2229to gush (as water)carry away as with a flood, pour out.שֵׁנָ֣הshenahsleepשֵׁנָהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “sleep”, the ordinary formH8142sleepsleep.יִהְי֑וּyihyvbeהָיָהverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “be”, an unfinished actionH1961to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶרbaboqerin dayבֹּקֶרpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in day”, the ordinary formH1242properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning([phrase]) day, early, morning, morrow.כֶּחָצִ֥ירkechatsiras grassחָצִירpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “as grass”, the ordinary formH2682grass; also a leek (collectively)grass, hay, herb, leek.יַחֲלֹֽףyachalofchangeחָלַףverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “change”, an unfinished actionH2498properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or changeabolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

World English Bible

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Τὰ ἐξουδενώματα αὐτῶν ἔτη ἔσονται, τοπρωῒ ὡσεὶ χλόη παρέλθοι·