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You return people to dust
    merely by[a] saying, “Return, you mortals!”
One thousand years in your sight are but a single day
    that passes by, just like a night watch.
You will sweep them away while they are asleep—
    by morning they are like growing grass.

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  1. Psalm 90:3 The Heb. lacks merely by

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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