Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
- 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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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; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
- Mic 7:20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
- Ps 148:6He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
- Ps 36:5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Ps 89:1–2I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 89:11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
- Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
- Ps 104:5Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
- 2 Pet 3:5–7For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
- Job 38:4–7Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
- Eccl 1:4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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