Psalms 90:4
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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
But, 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.
Read in contextPsalms 39:5
Behold, 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.
Read in contextMatthew 24:43
But 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.
Read in contextLuke 12:38
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Read in contextMatthew 14:25
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
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