Psalm 90:4 “For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a wat…”

Psalm 90:4

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Darby Translation

For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

Young's Literal Translation

For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

Bible in Basic English

For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

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Cross references

“For”

2 Peter 3:8

2 Peter 3:8 · BSB

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.

“and as”

Matthew 24:43 Luke 12:38 Matthew 14:25

Matthew 24:43 · BSB

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.

Luke 12:38 · BSB

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.

Matthew 14:25 · BSB

During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.

Also

Psalm 39:5 Exodus 14:24 Judges 7:19

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

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

Exodus 14:24 · BSB

At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.

Judges 7:19 · BSB

Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

5You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

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