Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

This is the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face—even Jacob. Selah.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Such is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.Selah

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek thy face, [even] Jacob. Selah.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


This is the generation (description) of those who diligently seek Him and require Him as their greatest need,
Who seek Your face, even [as did] Jacob. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

This the generation seeking him, searching out thy face O Jacob. Silence.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Such [is the] sort of those who seek him, those who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah

Modern King James verseion

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob's descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face?even Jacob. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

This, is the generation of them who inquire of him, who seek thy face, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Webster

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

World English Bible

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face -- even Jacob. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

This is a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah.

References

Hastings

Prayers for Psalm 24:6

Context Readings

A Welcome For God Into The Temple

5 He shall receive blessing from Jehovah, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek unto him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. 7 Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

Cross References

Psalm 27:8

My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.

Psalm 105:4

Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;

Psalm 22:30

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

Psalm 73:15

If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected him to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

Romans 4:16

Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

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