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Psalm 90:4 KJV
Psalms · chapter 90 · verse 4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.Psalm 90:4 · King James Version
Psalm 90:4 in context
2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but 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 which groweth up.
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
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Key words (Strong's)
- yesterdayʼethmôwlheretoforeH865 →
- thousandʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
- sightʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- watchʼashmurâha night watchH821 →
- pastʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
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This psalm is entitled a prayer of Moses. Where, and in what volume, it was preserved from Moses's time till the collection of psalms was begun to be made, is uncertain; but, being divinely inspired, it was under a special protection: perhaps it was written in the book of Jasher, or the book of the wars of the Lord.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6