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Psalm 90:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 90:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 You turn men back to dust,
saying, “Return,[a] you children of men.”
4 For to you a thousand years
are like a yesterday that has passed
or one of the watches of the night.[b]
5 You snatch them away like a dream;
they are like the grass of the field,[c]
Footnotes
- Psalm 90:3 Return: by a word of the Lord, human beings return to the dust from which they were made (see Gen 2:7; 3:19).
- Psalm 90:4 A thousand years are for God like one day or, even less, like a fraction of one night—like one of the three watches into which the night was divided (see Jdg 7:19). This verse is cited in 2 Pet 3:8.
- Psalm 90:5 The life of people is like that of the new grass that appears at dawn and disappears by nightfall under the burning rays of the sun (see Pss 103:16f; 129:6; Job 14:1f; Isa 40:6f). They have no longevity.
