Psalm 90:4 {89:4}
Good News Translation
A thousand years to you are like one day; they are like yesterday, already gone, like a short hour in the night.

New Revised Standard Version
For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night.

Contemporary English Version
but a thousand years mean nothing to you! They are merely a day gone by or a few hours in the night.

New American Bible
A thousand years in your eyes are merely a day gone by, Before a watch passes in the night,

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

for

2 Peter 3:8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

is past.

Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking upon the sea.

Matthew 24:43 But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

Luke 12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
3Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. 4For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,5Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.…
Cross References
2 Peter 3:8
But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Exodus 14:24
And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host.

Judges 7:19
And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.

Psalm 39:5
Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 90:3
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