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Psalms 90:4

For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.

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90:3 You turn man to destruction, And say, "Return, O children of men."

90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.

90:5 You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:

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