KJV King James Version
For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
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Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
WEB World English Bible
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
ASV American Standard Version
For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
Surrounding context — Psalm 90
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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Cross-references
2 Peter 3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.Psalm 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.Luke 12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find [them] so, blessed are those servants.Matthew 14:25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.Exodus 14:24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,Judges 7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their hands.
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