Psalm 90:2-4

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Before the mountains were born
Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

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You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”
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For a ^[a]thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
Or as a watch in the night.^(A)

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Footnotes

Psalm 90:4 This was understood by the ancient rabbis to mean that a “thousand years” are literally only one day in God’s reckoning, and Peter seems to confirm the idea in 2 Pet 3:8.