Psalms 90:5

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning—

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

You sweep people away like dreams that disappear or like grass that springs up in the morning.

Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass

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You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

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).