Thou [a]turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Return ye sons of Adam.

[b]For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou hast [c]overflowed them, they are as a sleep, in the morning he groweth like the grass:

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:3 Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man’s life moveth God to pity.
  2. Psalm 90:4 Though man thinks his life long, which is indeed most short, yea though it were a thousand years: yet in God’s sight it is as nothing, and as the watch that lasteth but three hours.
  3. Psalm 90:5 Thou takest them away suddenly as with a flood.

You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)
A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.(B)
Yet you sweep people away(C) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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