The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.”
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
- KJV The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
- BSB The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
- NASB “The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.”
- NLT The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”
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Quick answer
The children of God's servants will continue and be established before Him. God secures a future for His people across generations.
Overview
The psalm closes with assurance that the descendants of God's servants will endure under His care. The eternal, unchanging God guarantees the continuation of His people. This finds fulfillment in the church, the lasting people God establishes through Christ to dwell secure before Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 69:35–36For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
- Ps 45:16–17Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
- Ps 22:30–31Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- Ps 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
- Isa 65:22They will not build, and another inhabit. They will not plant, and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
- Isa 59:20–21“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 90:16–17Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
- Isa 66:22“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
- Isa 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
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