A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Parallel translations
- WEB Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- BSB Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
- NKJV A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
- NASB A posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.
- NLT Our children will also serve him. Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord.
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Quick answer
Future generations will serve God and be told of the Lord. The saving work of God is passed on to those yet to come.
Overview
The psalm looks forward to a continuing line of worshipers, a posterity who will serve Yahweh and hear the report of his deeds. God's redemptive work is never confined to one generation but proclaimed to the next. This foreshadows the ongoing proclamation of the gospel, by which each generation comes to know and serve the Lord through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Heb 2:13And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
- 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- Gal 3:26–29For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
- Ps 102:28The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
- Ps 73:15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
- Ps 87:6The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
- Isa 53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
- Ps 14:5There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
- Matt 3:9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Ps 24:6This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
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