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Psalm 90:4 (WEB)
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Fathers and councils · 6

Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 81
“We have perceived, moreover, that the expression, ‘The day of the Lord is as a thousand years,’ is connected with this subject.” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 4; 2 Pet. iii. 8.
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Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §20On Daniel
“For the Sabbath is the type and emblem of the future kingdom of the saints, when they “shall reign with Christ,” when He comes from heaven, as John says in his Apocalypse: for “a day with the Lord is as a thousand years.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 4.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith I.3Book I
“If I am in error, let my adversaries prove it.” — editor's note: See James i. 13; S. Luke xviii. 27; Ps. xc. 2–4; lxxxix. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 70
“For to thee it seemeth a long time, to God it seemeth not long, to whom a thousand years are one day, or the three hours of a watch.” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 90
““For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday, which is past by” (ver. 4): hence we ought to turn to Thy refuge, where Thou art without any change, from the fleeting scenes around us; since however long a time may be wished…” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 64
“Or if even this is so (for time flies, and a thousand years are in God’s sight as one day, or as a watch in the night,) yet we cannot believe that He intended any such meaning on this occasion, especially as He went on to say, “Ye shall seek me, and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 4.
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