Your faithfulness continues throughout generations; You established the earth, and it stands.
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.
- 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.
- 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 Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
- 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 148:6He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
- Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- 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 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.
- Ps 89:11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
- 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.
- 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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