8 Bible Verses about Future Generations

That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born
May arise and recount them to their children,

Let this be recorded for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created will praise the Lord.

Let this be recorded for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created will praise the Lord.

For He looked down from His holy height [of His sanctuary],
From heaven the Lord gazed on the earth,

To hear the sighing of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,
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So that people may declare the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,

When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.

I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days;
Your years are [eternal] throughout all generations.

“At the beginning You founded the earth;
The heavens are the work of Your hands.

“Even they will perish, but You endure;
Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.
Like clothing You will change them and they shall be changed.

“But You remain the same,
And Your years will never end.

“The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.”

Posterity will serve Him;
They will tell of the Lord to the next generation.

They will come and declare His righteousness
To a people yet to be born—that He has done it [and that it is finished].

but with those [future Israelites] who are not here with us today, as well as with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God

But in truth we have done this out of concern, for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your sons (descendants) may say to our sons, “What claim do you have to the Lord, the God of Israel?

Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

“For He has looked [with loving care] on the humble state of His maidservant;
For behold, from now on all generations will count me blessed and happy and favored by God!