This is the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face—even Jacob. Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face — even Jacob. Selah.
- KJV This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
- BSB Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
- NKJV This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah
- NLT Such people may seek you and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob. Interlude
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Quick answer
This describes the generation that seeks God's face. True seekers form the people who belong to him.
Overview
The psalm identifies the worshipers as a generation marked by seeking the face of God, longing for his presence. 'Even Jacob' links them to the covenant people and their forefather. Selah invites pause and reflection. Those who seek God through Christ are the true seekers, drawn to behold his glory and welcomed into his presence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 105:4Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
- Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
- John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
- Ps 73:15If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
- Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Ps 22:30Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Isa 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
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