⁵ Yet you sweep people away^(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

⁶ A voice says, “Cry out.”
    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,^(A)
    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

²⁰ They are like a dream^(A) when one awakes;^(B)
    when you arise, Lord,
    you will despise them as fantasies.^(C)

¹⁶ They were carried off before their time,^(A)
    their foundations^(B) washed away by a flood.^(C)

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,

¹⁵ The life of mortals is like grass,^(A)
    they flourish like a flower^(B) of the field;
¹⁶ the wind blows^(C) over it and it is gone,
    and its place^(D) remembers it no more.

²⁰ Terrors^(A) overtake him like a flood;^(B)
    a tempest snatches him away in the night.^(C)
21 The east wind^(D) carries him off, and he is gone;^(E)
    it sweeps him out of his place.^(F)

⁷ Then the hordes of all the nations^(A) that fight against Ariel,^(B)
    that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,^(C)
    with a vision in the night—
⁸ as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
    but awakens^(D) hungry still;
as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
    but awakens faint and thirsty still.^(E)
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
    that fight against Mount Zion.^(F)