Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
- BSB May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to 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 thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
- Ps 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Deut 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- Num 14:15–24Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
- Ps 92:4For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
- Num 14:30–31Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Ps 77:12I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
- Josh 23:14And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
- Josh 4:22–24Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
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