Psalms 90:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Yesterday, while it was with us, was a short period of four and twenty hours; but when it is past, it seems like nothing at all. A thousand years, all big with events which we consider to be full of weight and importance, make up a long period in which myriads of men come and go; yet these thousand years, in God’s sight, "are but as yesterday when it is past," or but as the few hours in the night during which the mariner keeps watch at sea, and then is relieved by another. A thousand years are but "as a watch in the night" to the Eternal, and he needs no one to relieve him, for "he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."
Psalms 90:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Yesterday, while it was with us, was a short period of four and twenty hours; but when it is past, it seems like nothing at all. A thousand years, all big with events which we consider to be full of weight and importance, make up a long period in which myriads of men come and go; yet these thousand years, in God’s sight, "are but as yesterday when it is past," or but as the few hours in the night during which the mariner keeps watch at sea, and then is relieved by another. A thousand years are but "as a watch in the night" to the Eternal, and he needs no one to relieve him, for "he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."