...the Jordan. So he wrote in his psalm, "Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up....up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. . . . For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The...

...that it must be meant to illustrate the text. Comparing men to grass, the psalm's sixth verse says, "In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." The second half of this verse is set to a melody derived from Louis Moreau Gottschalk's The Last Hope...

...are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourished!, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. Psalm 90, Watts "Man Frail and God Eternal" 1 Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to...

...with a flood; they are (as) a sleep: in the morning (they are) like grass (which) groweth up. 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities...

...humankind for thousands of years that, 'Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.' In the gospel of St Luke, a rich man reflects that it's now...

...is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up....up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.... The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore...

...is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up....up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities...

...and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." We are "as a sleep; or as grass: in the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." The foundation of this sentiment is obvious. Men do not live for ever. The longest duration of human...

...rephrasing of the lines from Psalms 90: 5 & 6: Thou carnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourishes, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 30 SMC, 27 September 1863,...

...of the grass and flowers of the field, "Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up....up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled." In chapter one of James, this...