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4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past{H8799)}, and as a watch in the night.
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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)This psalm is entitled a prayer of Moses . Where, and in what volume, it was preserved from Moses’s time till the collection of psalms was begun to be made, is uncertain; but, being divinely inspired, it was under a special protection: perhaps it was written in the book of Jasher, or the book of the wars of the Lord. Moses taught the people of Israel to pray, and put words into their mouths which…
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