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A thousand years in your eyes
    are merely a day gone by,(A)
Before a watch passes in the night,
    [a]you wash them away;(B)
They sleep,
    and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.

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Footnotes

  1. 90:5 You wash them away: the Hebrew of Ps 90:4–5 is unclear.

A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.(A)
Yet you sweep people away(B) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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