For a thousandyearsin Your sightAre like yesterdaywhenit passesby, Or [as] a watchin the night.
"Behold,You have mademy days[as] handbreadths,And my lifetimeas nothingin Your sight;Surelyeverymanat his bestis a merebreath.Selah.
At the morningwatch,the LORDlookeddownon the armyof the Egyptiansthrough the pillarof fireand cloudand broughtthe armyof the Egyptiansinto confusion.
And in the fourthwatchof the nightHe cameto them, walkingon the sea.
"But be sureof this,that ifthe head of the househad knownat whattime of the nightthe thiefwas coming,he would have been on the alertand would not have allowedhis houseto be brokeninto.
"Whetherhe comesin the secondwatch,or evenin the third,and finds[them] so,blessedare those[slaves].
But do not let thisone[fact] escape your notice,beloved,that with the Lordonedayis likea thousandyears,and a thousandyearslikeoneday.
So Gideonand the hundredmenwhowere with him cameto the outskirtsof the campat the beginningof the middlewatch,whenthey had justpostedthe watch;and they blewthe trumpetsand smashedthe pitchersthat were in their hands.
