May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
- KJV Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
- NKJV Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children.
- NASB Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your majesty to their children.
- NLT Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory.
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Quick answer
Moses prays that God's mighty works and glory would be seen by His servants and their children.
Overview
He asks that God display His saving deeds to the present generation and the next. The longing is for God's glory to be passed on through the covenant community. This prayer is answered supremely as God's glory is revealed in Christ and made known to generations (2 Cor. 4:6).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Hab 3:2O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
- Ps 44:1For 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.
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Deut 1:39And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- Num 14:15–24If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
- Ps 92:4For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
- Num 14:30–31Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
- Ps 77:12I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.
- Josh 23:14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
- Josh 4:22–24you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
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