Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children 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 carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Cross References

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.

Psalm 39:5

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

Judges 7:19

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto 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 brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Matthew 14:25

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

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.

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 .

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.

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