Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
- BSB Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.
- NKJV Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides.
- NASB Your faithfulness continues throughout generations; You established the earth, and it stands.
- NLT Your faithfulness extends to every generation, as enduring as the earth you created.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 100:5For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 148:6He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
- Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
- Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
- Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Ps 89:1–2A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- Deut 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
- Ps 104:5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
- Ps 89:11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
- 2 Pet 3:5–7For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
- Job 38:4–7“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
- Eccl 1:4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
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