The Lord rules forever, your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come! Praise the Lord!

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

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.

Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.

He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations –

May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

You, Lord, will protect them; you will continually shelter each one from these evil people,

Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the Lord’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

The account of his intervention will be recorded for future generations; people yet to be born will praise the Lord.

Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’