'Generation' in the Bible

He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.

Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.

There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

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

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

The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto this generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from generation to generation.

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

Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?

We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger from generation to generation?

{An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness endureth for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.

But thou, Jehovah, abidest for ever, and thy memorial from generation to generation.

This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people that shall be created shall praise Jah:

I said, My God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:

His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Thy faithfulness is from generation to generation: thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.

Thy name, O Jehovah, is for ever; thy memorial, O Jehovah, from generation to generation.

One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Jehovah will reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluiah!