Psalms 90:4
For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.
Open English Bible (US)
In The 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.
In Context
3You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
5Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
Cross References
Psalms 39:5See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: Selah
Matthew 24:43But this you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time of night the thief was coming, they would have been on the watch, and would not have allowed their house to be broken into.
2 Peter 3:8But you, dear friends, must never shut your eyes to the fact that, to the Lord, one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:2-7
God's Care of His People; Frailty of Human Life. 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 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. 4 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… Read the whole commentary →