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You return man to the dust,
saying,[a] “Return, O sons of man.”
For a thousand years in your eyes
are like yesterday when it passes,
or like a watch in the night.
You sweep them away like a flood.
They fall asleep.[b]
In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:3 Literally “and you say”
  2. Psalm 90:5 The interpretation of 5a is difficult