Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

International Standard Version

Our descendants will serve him, and that 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.

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 such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul. 30 My seed shall serve him; they shall be counted unto the LORD for a generation. 31 They shall come, and declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, whom the LORD hath made.


Cross References

Psalm 14:5

There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Psalm 24:6

This is the generation of them that seek him, even of them that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah

Psalm 73:15

Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

Psalm 87:6

The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah.

Psalm 102:28

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall prosper in thy sight.

Isaiah 53:10

And yet the LORD determined to bruise him with infirmities. His soul giving herself for trangression, he shall see seed of long continuance; and the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Matthew 3:9

And see that you think not to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father': for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Galatians 3:26-29

For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 2:13

And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold here am I and the children which God hath given me."

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

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