Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

For a thousand years, in thy sight, are 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.

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.

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 makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men. 4 For a thousand years, in thy sight, are 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 that groweth up:


Cross References

2 Peter 3:8

But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

Matthew 14:25

But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them, walking on 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 not have suffered his house to be dug through into.

Luke 12:38

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

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked upon the camp of the Egyptians, in the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and embarrassed the camp of the Egyptians.

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