A moment in scripture
Psalms 90:6
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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
- Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- Psalms 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.