Discovery BoxPsalms 90:5 
Context90:5 You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” 1
In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
Psalms 90:14
Context90:14 Satisfy us in the morning 2 with your loyal love!
Then we will shout for joy and be happy 3 all our days!
Psalms 101:8
Context101:8 Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land,
and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.
Psalms 143:8
Context143:8 May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, 4
for I trust in you.
Show me the way I should go, 5
because I long for you. 6
1 tn Heb “you bring them to an end [with] sleep.” The Hebrew verb זָרַם (zaram) has traditionally been taken to mean “flood” or “overwhelm” (note the Polel form of a root זרם in Ps 77:17, where the verb is used of the clouds pouring down rain). However, the verb form here is Qal, not Polel, and is better understood as a homonym meaning “to make an end [of life].” The term שֵׁנָה (shenah, “sleep”) can be taken as an adverbial accusative; it is a euphemism here for death (see Ps 76:5-6).
2 sn Morning is used metaphorically for a time of renewed joy after affliction (see Pss 30:5; 46:5; 49:14; 59:16; 143:8).
3 tn After the imperative (see the preceding line) the cohortatives with the prefixed conjunction indicate purpose/result.
4 tn Heb “cause me to hear in the morning your loyal love.” Here “loyal love” probably stands metonymically for an oracle of assurance promising God’s intervention as an expression of his loyal love.
sn The morning is sometimes viewed as the time of divine intervention (see Pss 30:5; 59:16; 90:14).
5 sn The way probably refers here to God’s moral and ethical standards and requirements (see v. 10).
6 tn Heb “for to you I lift up my life.” The Hebrew expression נָאָשׂ נֶפֶשׁ (na’as nefesh, “to lift up [one’s] life”) means “to desire; to long for” (see Deut 24:15; Prov 19:18; Jer 22:27; 44:14; Hos 4:8, as well as H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 16).
