Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageFor a thousand years in Your sight are like a single yesterday, already spent, or like a single watch in the night.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFor a thousand years in Your eyes are but like yesterday — a day already gone — or like a night-watch passing by.
KJV
King James VersionFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFor in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
Footnotes
The phrase כְּיֹום אֶתְמֹול כִּי יַעֲבֹר — 'like yesterday when it has passed' — is emphatic: even that thousand-year span is already behind God, already elapsed. It is not merely brief in His sight; it is over. The night-watch (ashmurah) was typically three to four hours — the briefest measurement of ancient time. This verse is directly echoed in 2 Pet. 3:8, where the apostle deploys it to reframe the apparent delay of the Lord's return. Both FOG and FOG Message preserve both images: the already-elapsed day and the fleeting watch.