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Psalm 90:6

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
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Notice

Grass springs up in the morning and dries out by evening, compressing human life into a single day and exposing how fragile its vigor is.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.Both passages compare human life to growing plants whose brief flourishing ends in loss.
Psalm 89:15Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.These verses share little: one pictures life fading like grass; the other describes people walking in God’s presence.
Psalm 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.Both picture grass springing up before destruction, though Psalm 92 speaks of the wicked and Psalm 90 of human frailty.
James 1:11For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will …Both use withering grass to portray life’s fragility; James applies the image to the rich man amid his pursuits.
Matthew 6:30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?Both describe grass that lasts a short time; Matthew uses its brief life to speak of God’s care.
Isaiah 17:11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate …Both move from morning growth to loss, with Isaiah describing blossoms followed by a harvest that flees away.
Where this verse fits

Aging. death and what comes after. grief.

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One step

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Read Psalm 90:6 at dawn and again at dusk

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Encouragement

The span from morning to evening is stark. Your life is brief before God, and this prayer speaks that truth without hiding its weight.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).