Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah for a generation.

New American Standard Bible

Posterity will serve Him;
It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Their descendants will serve Him;
the next generation will be told about the Lord.

International Standard Version

Our descendants will serve him, and that generation will be told about the Lord.

A Conservative Version

A seed shall serve him. It shall be told of LORD to the [next] generation.

American Standard Version

A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Descendants will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the [next] generation.

Modern King James verseion

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My seed shall serve him; they shall be counted unto the LORD for a generation.

NET Bible

A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.

New Heart English Bible

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

The Emphasized Bible

My seed, shall serve him, It shall he recounted, of the Lord, to a generation that shall come:

Webster

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

World English Bible

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Context Readings

From Suffering To Praise

29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship before him, and all they going down to dust shall bow down, and he preserved not alive his soul. 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah for a generation. 31 They shall come and announce his justice to a people being born, for he made.


Cross References

Psalm 14:5

There they feared a fear: for God is in the generation of the just one.

Psalm 24:6

This the generation seeking him, searching out thy face O Jacob. Silence.

Psalm 73:15

If I said, I will recount thus; behold, I transgressed against the generation of thy sons.

Psalm 87:6

Jehovah shall recount in writing up the peoples, This was born there. Silence.

Psalm 102:28

The sons of thy servants shall abide, and their seed shall be prepared before thee.

Isaiah 53:10

And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

Matthew 3:9

And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham.

Galatians 3:26-29

For we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 2:13

And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me.

1 Peter 2:9

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

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