Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:8

But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch when they had but newly set the watch. And they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that

Matthew 14:25

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

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Luke 12:38

And if he should come in the second watch, and should come in the third watch, and find so, blessed are those bondmen.

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that LORD looked forth upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.

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