Your name, O Lord, endures forever, Your fame, O Lord, throughout all generations.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
- KJV Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
- BSB Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.
- NASB Your name, Lord, is everlasting, The mention of You, Lord, is throughout all generations.
- NLT Your name, O Lord, endures forever; your fame, O Lord, is known to every generation.
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Quick answer
Yahweh's name and renown endure forever, unchanged through every generation.
Overview
Against the backdrop of His mighty deeds, the psalmist declares that God's character and reputation are everlasting. While nations and kings rise and fall, the Lord's name remains the same and is praised in every age. This eternal faithfulness is the unshakable ground of worship and finds its fullest revelation in Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 102:12But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
- Exod 3:15God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Ps 8:1For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Ps 72:17His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
- Ps 8:9Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
- Ps 89:1A 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 102:21that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
- Hos 12:5even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
- Matt 6:9Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
- Exod 34:5–7Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
- Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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