I will commemorate your name through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you forever and ever.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
- KJV I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
- NKJV I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.
- NASB I will make Your name known among all generations; Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever.
- NLT I will bring honor to your name in every generation. Therefore, the nations will praise you forever and ever.
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Quick answer
The poet vows to make the king's name remembered through all generations, so peoples will praise him forever. It matters because the king's everlasting renown points to Christ.
Overview
The psalm closes by pledging that the king's name will be celebrated for all time, drawing perpetual praise from the nations. No earthly king's fame truly endures forever, but Christ's does. His name is exalted above every name, and to Him belongs eternal praise from all peoples.
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Cross-references · 11
- Mal 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Isa 62:3You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
- Ps 72:17–19May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.
- Isa 61:9Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
- Ps 138:4All the kings of the earth will give You thanks, O LORD, when they hear the words of Your mouth.
- Song 6:9but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
- Matt 26:13Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
- Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- Ps 22:30–31Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
- Ps 145:4–7One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- 1 Cor 11:26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
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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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