Psalms 90:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Psalms 90:4 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For a thousand years in Thine eyes <FI>are<Fi> as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 90:4 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:24At 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 7:19Gideon 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.
- Psalms 39:5You, 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
- Matthew 14:25During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
- Matthew 24:43But 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 12:38Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.
- 2 Peter 3:8Beloved, 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.
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