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Psalms 90:4
4For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
- New International Version (NIV)A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.
Context of Psalms 90:4
2Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God. 3Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men. For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up: 6In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:4 word by word
כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽעֵינֶ֗יךָ כְּי֣וֹם אֶ֭תְמוֹל כִּ֣י יַעֲבֹ֑ר וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה בַלָּֽיְלָה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 90:4
- 2 Peter 3:8But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with [the] Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- Matthew 14:25But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them, walking on the sea.
- Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through [into].
- Luke 12:38And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find [them] thus, blessed are those [bondmen].
Commentaries on Psalms 90:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4For a thousand years in thy sight - As if he had said, Though the resurrection of the body may be a thousand (or any indefinite number of) years distant; yet, when these are past, they are but as yesterday, or a single thatch of the night. They pass through the mind in a moment, and appear no longer in their duration than the time required by the mind to reflect them by thought. But, short as they appear to the eye of the mind, they are nothing when…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For a thousand years in thy sight - Hebrew, “In thy eyes;” that is, It so appears to thee - or, a thousand years so seem to thee, however long they may appear to man. The utmost length to which the life of man has reached - in the case of Methuselah - was nearly a thousand years Genesis 5:27; and the idea here is, that the longest human life, even if it should be lengthened out to a thousand years, would be in the sight of God, or in comparison with his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6Unlike God, humans are mortal and temporary.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Even were our days now a thousand years, as Adam's, our life would be but a moment in God's sight (2Pe 3:8). a watch--or, third part of a night (compare Ex 14:24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 90
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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