A moment in scripture
Psalms 90:4
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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
- Psalms 90:3
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
- Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Psalms 90:6
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.