'Generation' in the Bible

You, O Lord, will preserve and keep them;You will protect him from this [evil] generation forever.

There they tremble with great fear,For God is with the [consistently] righteous generation.

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

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.

Consider her ramparts,Go through her palaces,That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;They shall never again see the light.

You will prolong the king’s life [adding days upon days];His years will be like many generations.

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,Your power to all who are to come.

If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

We will not hide them from their children,But [we will] tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,And [tell of] His great might and power and the wonderful works that He has done.

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

And not be like their fathers—A stubborn and rebellious generation,A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

So we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,Will give You thanks forever;We will declare and publish Your praise from generation to generation.

I will sing of the goodness and lovingkindness of the Lord forever;With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.

“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’

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

Let his descendants be cut off,And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

His descendants will be mighty on earth;The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Your faithfulness continues from generation to generation;You have established the earth, and it stands [securely].

One generation shall praise Your works to another,And shall declare Your mighty and remarkable acts.

The Lord shall reign forever,Your God, O Zion, to all generations.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)