What does Psalm 90:5 mean?

Psalm 90:5 highlights themes such as mortality, transience, life when read in context.

How should I apply Psalm 90:5 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

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James 4:14
Both verses reflect on the brevity of life and the importance of recognizing our mortality.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The imagery of grass and its fleeting nature is common in both passages.
1 Peter 1:24
This verse echoes the theme of human life being temporary and fading like grass.