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Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
Psalms 102:18 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.
  • KJV This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
  • NKJV This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
  • NASB ¶This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord:
  • NLT Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the Lord.

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Quick answer

This will be recorded for a future generation, that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD. God's faithfulness is written down to inspire future worship.

Overview

The psalmist anticipates a coming generation, even a people not yet born, who will praise God for His works. Scripture preserves God's deeds so that future believers may trust and worship Him. This points to the new people God creates through the gospel, who praise Him across the ages (1 Peter 2:9-10).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Ps 22:30–31Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
  • Rom 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
  • Isa 43:21The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
  • Ps 78:4–6We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
  • 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
  • 2 Pet 1:15And I will make every effort to ensure that after my departure, you will be able to recall these things at all times.
  • 1 Cor 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
  • Deut 31:19–30Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
  • 2 Cor 5:17–18Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
  • Ps 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
  • Isa 65:17–19For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
  • 2 Tim 3:16–17All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  • John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
  • Dan 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
  • Job 19:23–24I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
  • Isa 43:7everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
  • Ps 45:16–17Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
  • Ps 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
  • Exod 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 102:18 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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