Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
- KJV Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
- 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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Quick answer
God's faithfulness extends to every generation, just as He established the enduring earth. The dependable creation testifies to the dependable God.
Overview
The psalmist sees God's unchanging faithfulness reflected in the stable, ordered earth He created and sustains. Generation after generation can rest on the same reliable God whose word and works do not fail. This continuity assures believers that the God of their fathers remains faithful to them and to their children in Christ (Lam. 3:22-23; Acts 2:39).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
- Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
- Ps 148:6He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
- Ps 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- Ps 89:1–2A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 89:11The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
- Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
- Ps 104:5He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
- 2 Pet 3:5–7But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
- Job 38:4–7Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- Eccl 1:4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
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