Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
KJV
Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis.
Vulgate
ἐν τοῖς μεταφρένοις αὐτοῦ ἐπισκιάσει σοι, καὶ ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτοῦ ἐλπιεῖς· ὅπλῳ κυκλώσει σε ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτοῦ.
LXX
For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
ASV
כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽ/עֵינֶ֗י/ךָ כְּ/י֣וֹם אֶ֭תְמוֹל כִּ֣י יַעֲבֹ֑ר וְ/אַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה בַ/לָּֽיְלָה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶ֖לֶף
'lp
adjective · 500×
אֶתְמ֥וֹל
'tmvl
noun · 8×
אַשְׁמֹ֣רֶת
'shmrt
noun · 7×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. This is the only Psalm attributed to Moses. It meditates on the eternity of God in contrast with the brevity and frailty of human life. A thousand years in God's sight are but as yesterday. The days of our years are threescore years and ten — yet even the length of days is filled with labor and sorrow. Therefore Moses …
Cross-references
- 2Pet 3:8 — But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- 2Pet 3:8 — But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- Heb 13:8 — Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
- Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
- 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.
- Matt 14:25 — And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
- Matt 24:43 — But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
- Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Ps 102:27 — But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
- Rev 20:3 — And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loose