Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.

International Standard Version

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
Or as a watch in the night.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For a thousand years in thine eyes as the day of yesterday, for it shall pass away, and watches in the night.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like yesterday when it passes, or [like] a watch in the night.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is passed as a watch in the night.

NET Bible

Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

New Heart English Bible

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

The Emphasized Bible

For, a thousand years, in thine eyes, are , As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or as a watch in the night.

Webster

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

World English Bible

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Youngs Literal Translation

For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

Context Readings

Eternal God And Mortal Man

3 Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam. 4 For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.
5 Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch when only the guards were awake, and they blew the shofarot and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking upon the sea.

Matthew 24:43

But know this that if the husband of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch and would not suffer his house to be broken into.

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 slaves.

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass that in the morning watch the LORD looked at the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud and troubled the camp of the Egyptians

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