One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Parallel translations
- WEB One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
- BSB One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your 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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Quick answer
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 71:18Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
- Ps 78:3–7Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Deut 6:7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Josh 4:21–24And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
- Ps 44:1–2We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Exod 12:26–27And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
- Exod 13:14–15And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
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