Psalms 90:4

In 11 translations

BSB

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.See 2 Peter 3:8.

KJV

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.when…: or, when he hath passed them

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.

LSV

For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, || For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC89:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

GNV

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

JPS

For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

LXXE89:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽעֵינֶ֗יךָ כְּי֣וֹם אֶ֭תְמוֹל כִּ֣י יַעֲבֹ֑ר וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה בַלָּֽיְלָה׃

LXX-Br89:4

Ὅτι χίλια ἔτη ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς σου, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα ἡ ἐχθὲς ἥτις διῆλθε, καὶ φυλακὴ ἐν νυκτί.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• 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 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.
• Matthew 14:25During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
• 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.

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