⁵ You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning;^(A)

⁶ A voice says, “Cry out!”
    And I said,^[a] “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass;
    their constancy is like the flower of the field.^(A)

“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,^(A)

¹⁵ As for mortals, their days are like grass;
    they flourish like a flower of the field;^(A)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
    and its place knows it no more.

⁷ Who is this, rising like the Nile,
    like rivers whose waters surge?^(A)
8 Egypt rises like the Nile,
    like rivers whose waters surge.
It said, “Let me rise; let me cover the earth;
    let me destroy cities and their inhabitants.”^(B)