Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

Julia Smith Translation

A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah 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 they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.


Cross References

Psalm 14:5

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

Psalm 24:6

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

Psalm 73:15

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

Psalm 87:6

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

Psalm 102:28

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Matthew 3:9

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Galatians 3:26-29

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 2:13

And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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