One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
Parallel translations
- WEB One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
- KJV One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
- NKJV One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.
- NASB One generation will praise Your works to another, And will declare Your mighty acts.
- NLT Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.
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Each generation will pass on the testimony of God's mighty works to the next. Praise and faith are meant to be handed down through the generations.
Overview
God's deeds are not merely remembered privately but proclaimed publicly from parents to children, sustaining covenant faith across time. This generational transmission guards against forgetting what God has done. The church continues this calling, declaring the mighty acts of God supremely accomplished in the death and resurrection of Christ.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- Ps 78:3–7that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Deut 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Isa 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Josh 4:21–24Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
- Ps 44:1–2For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- Exod 12:26–27When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
- Exod 13:14–15In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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