This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.
- BSB Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may 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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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
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- Ps 22:30–31A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
- Rom 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
- Isa 43:21This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
- Ps 78:4–6We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
- 1 Pet 2:9–10But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
- 2 Pet 1:15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
- 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
- Deut 31:19–30Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- 2 Cor 5:17–18Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- Ps 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
- Isa 65:17–19For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- 2 Tim 3:16–17All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
- John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
- Dan 9:2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
- Job 19:23–24Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
- Isa 43:7Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
- Ps 45:16–17Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
- Ps 71:18Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
- Exod 17:14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
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