'Generations' in the Bible
He says to himself, “I will not be moved;Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
For You have heard my vows, O God;You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.
Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
Has His faithful love ceased forever?Is His promise at an end for all generations?
Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
{Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
The account of his intervention will be recorded for future generations; people yet to be born will praise the Lord.
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
For riches are not forever,Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?
There is no end to all the people nor to the past generations, yet future generations will not rejoice in him. This also is profitless and like chasing the wind.
It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
In the generations to come Jacob will take root;Israel will blossom and sprout,And they will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned it to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
For the moth will devour them like a garment,and the worm will eat them like wool.But My righteousness will last forever,and My salvation for all generations.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Therefore, desert creatures will live with hyenas,and ostriches will also live in her.It will never again be inhabitedor lived in through all generations.
But You, O Lord, reign forever;Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
But Judah will be inhabited foreverAnd Jerusalem for all generations.
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,
In past generations He allowed all the nations to go their own way,
After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues."
This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:
to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;
But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.
But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,