Psalms 90:4
2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
- KJV
- For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
- WEB
- For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
- ASV
- For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
- DARBY
- For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
- BLB
- For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like a day past that passes, or a watch in the night.
- ÅB
- For tusen år er i dine øyne som den dag igår når den farer bort, som en vakt om natten.
- OTB
- For tusen år i dine øyne
Er som en dag som nettopp har gått,
Eller som en nattevakt. - B1930
- For tusen år er i dine øine som den dag igår når den farer bort, som en vakt om natten.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Peter 3:8
Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Read in contextPsalms 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Read in contextMatthew 24:43
But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Read in contextLuke 12:38
Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.
Read in contextMatthew 14:25
During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
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