Psalms 90:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
  • Matt 14:25 : 25 As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.
  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Luke 12:38 : 38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves!
  • Judg 7:19 : 19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 90:5-13
    9 verses
    80%

    5You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

    6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

    7Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.

    8You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins.

    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

    10The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

    11Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

    12So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

    13Turn back toward us, O LORD! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

  • Ps 90:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1Book 4(Psalms 90-106) A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

    2Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.

    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

  • 2 Pet 3:8
    76%

    8Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

  • Ps 144:4
    73%

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 10:4-5
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    73%

    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Job 8:9
    72%

    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

  • Heb 1:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

    12and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

  • Eccl 1:4
    71%

    4A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.

  • Ps 102:24-27
    4 verses
    71%

    24I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

    25In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

    26They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.

    27But you remain; your years do not come to an end.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    70%

    46How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Job 4:20
    70%

    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Ps 146:4
    70%

    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Ps 103:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

  • Job 4:13
    69%

    13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

  • Ps 77:5
    69%

    5I thought about the days of old, about ancient times.

  • Ps 74:16
    68%

    16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

  • Ps 84:10
    68%

    10Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

  • Ps 93:2
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    2Your throne has been secure from ancient times; you have always been king.

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    68%

    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Job 17:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Ps 139:12
    68%

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Ps 89:49
    68%

    49Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

  • Job 14:5
    68%

    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Ps 102:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

    12But you, O LORD, rule forever, and your reputation endures.

  • Ps 73:20
    68%

    20They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

  • 2 Cor 4:18
    67%

    18because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

  • Job 29:4
    67%

    4just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

  • Ps 139:18
    67%

    18If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.