Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the Lord.
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- 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.
- 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:
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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).
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- Ps 22:30–31Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Isa 43:21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
- Ps 78:4–6We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
- 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- 2 Pet 1:15Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
- 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
- Deut 31:19–30“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to 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 anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
- Ps 48:13Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
- Isa 65:17–19“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- 2 Tim 3:16–17Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
- John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
- Dan 9:2in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
- Job 19:23–24“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
- Isa 43:7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”
- Ps 45:16–17Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
- Ps 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
- Exod 17:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
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