Psalms 90:6 (WEB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Psalms 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Psalms 90:5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Psalms 90:6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

Psalms 90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Psalms 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "morning", "sprouts", "springs", "evening", and "withered". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "morning" and "sprouts", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "You sweep them away as they sleep..." into verse 7's "For we are consumed in your anger...", so "morning" and "sprouts" belong inside that flow. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "morning" and "sprouts" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.