'Generation' in the Bible
Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah, 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 told of the Lord unto the next generation.
This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah
Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.
Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
That the generation to come might know them , even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,
And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah.
Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
One generation shall laud thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts.