For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For, &. This thought naturally tends to convert the sinner.
Watch. Consisting of three hours, (Berthier) which were of unequal length, according to the seasons. (Calmet)
A thousand years seem not so long to God. (Haydock)
What then must be the short life of man? See Job vii. 8. (Calmet)
None ever lived one thousand years. Yet what would that be, compared with eternity? (Worthington)