Devine Scripture

Psalms 90:4

Psalms chapter 90 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

Context

v.3Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

v.4This passage

v.5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 24:43

    But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

  • Matthew 14:25

    And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea.

  • Luke 12:38

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

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

  • 2 Peter 3:8

    But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.