Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Our descendants will serve him, and that generation will be told about the Lord.

New American Standard Bible

Posterity will serve Him;
It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

King James Version

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Holman Bible

Their descendants will serve Him;
the next generation will be told about the Lord.

A Conservative Version

A seed shall serve him. It shall be told of LORD to the [next] generation.

American Standard Version

A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

Darby Translation

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Julia Smith Translation

A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah for a generation.

King James 2000

A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Descendants will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the [next] generation.

Modern King James verseion

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My seed shall serve him; they shall be counted unto the LORD for a generation.

NET Bible

A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.

New Heart English Bible

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

The Emphasized Bible

My seed, shall serve him, It shall he recounted, of the Lord, to a generation that shall come:

Webster

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

World English Bible

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Youngs Literal Translation

A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

References

Context Readings

From Suffering To Praise

29 All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission. All those who are about to go down to the grave will bow down in submission, along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive. 30 Our descendants will serve him, and that generation will be told about the Lord. 31 They will come and declare his righteousness to a people yet to be born; indeed, he has accomplished it! A Davidic Psalm.


Cross References

Psalm 14:5

There they are seized with terror, because God is with those who are righteous.

Psalm 24:6

This is the generation that seeks him. Those who seek your face are the true seed of Jacob. Interlude

Psalm 73:15

If I say, "I will talk like this," I would betray a generation of your children.

Psalm 87:6

The LORD will record, as he registers the nations, "This one was born there." Interlude

Psalm 102:28

May the descendants of your servants live securely, and may their children be established in your presence." Davidic

Isaiah 53:10

"Yet the LORD was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will triumph in his hand.

Matthew 3:9

Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

Galatians 3:26-29

For all of you are God's children through faith in the Messiah Jesus.

Hebrews 2:13

And again, "I will trust him." And again, "I am here with the children God has given me."

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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