Psalm 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.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 73:20, the wicked are like a dream when one awakes — directly parallel to the dream imagery in Psalm 90:5.
Psalm 103:15 uses the same grass imagery for human transience, echoing the brevity of life in Psalm 90:5.
Psalm 103:16 continues the grass metaphor, describing how wind removes it — parallel to being swept away.
Psalm 37:2 uses the same grass-withering image for the wicked — reinforcing the brevity theme here.
Psalm 39:5 echoes the brevity of life as a breath — a parallel to the flood/dream/grass imagery here.
Psalm 92:7 also uses grass to depict the wicked's temporary flourishing — a similar metaphor for transience.
In Isaiah 8:8, the flood sweeps into Judah, continuing the metaphor of overwhelming judgment like in Psalm 90:5.
1 Peter 1:24 quotes Isaiah 40:6, which itself echoes Psalm 90:5's grass imagery for human mortality.
James 1:11 expands on the withering grass under the sun, reinforcing the same brevity metaphor.
James 1:10 compares the rich man to a flower of grass that passes away, mirroring the fleeting life theme.
In Jeremiah 46:8, Egypt's flood-like rise covers the earth, echoing the sweeping away in Psalm 90:5.
In Jeremiah 46:7, Egypt rises like the Nile flood — a parallel image of a destructive force sweeping over.
Isaiah 40:6 declares 'all flesh is grass,' directly paralleling the grass imagery of human frailty.
In Isaiah 29:7, enemy nations are like a dream, a vision of the night — same fleeting, unreal quality as in Psalm 90:5.
In Isaiah 8:7, the Assyrian invasion is pictured as a flood overwhelming the land, mirroring the flood of God's judgment.
In Job 27:21, the east wind sweeps him away — a parallel image of being carried off suddenly, like the flood.
In Job 27:20, terrors overtake the wicked like a flood, echoing the sweeping away theme of Psalm 90:5.
In Job 22:16, the same flood imagery describes the wicked being swept away before their time, reinforcing sudden judgment.
Isaiah 37:27 uses the same grass-withering image for the Assyrians' defeat — echoing the transient life metaphor here.
Isaiah 51:12 explicitly calls man 'made like grass' — a direct parallel to the grass imagery of transience here.
Matthew 6:30 uses the same grass metaphor to illustrate how quickly life passes, echoing the transience of human existence.
In Job 20:8, the same dream imagery describes the wicked's fleeting existence — echoing the transience of life here.
James 4:14 directly echoes life's fleeting nature, calling it a mist that vanishes, similar to the dream and grass in Psalm 90:5.
Job 14:2 says man comes out like a flower and withers — directly parallels the grass/flower imagery.
Job 9:26 uses swift ships and eagle to illustrate life's fleeting nature, similar to Psalm 90:5's flood and dream imagery.
Isaiah 64:6 uses leaf-fading to describe human frailty — a parallel metaphor to the grass here.