Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

This is a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking 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.

Darby Translation

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

References

Hastings

Prayers for Psalm 24:6

Context Readings

A Welcome For God Into The Temple

5 He beareth away a blessing from Jehovah, Righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah. 7 Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!

Cross References

Psalm 27:8

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Psalm 105:4

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.

Psalm 22:30

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

Psalm 73:15

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

Isaiah 53:10

And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, 'Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

Romans 4:16

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

1 Peter 2:9

and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

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