Psalms 102 · Verse 28

Psalms 102:28

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
Psalms 102:28, King James Version

Psalms 102:28 in other translations

BSBThe children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
WEBThe children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
ASVThe children of thy servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before thee.
YLTThe sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!
DARBYThe children of thy servants shall abide, and their seed shall be established before thee.
BBEThe children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
WebsterThe children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

What does Psalms 102:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 102:23-28

23-28. The writer, speaking for the Church, finds encouragement in the midst of all his distresses. God's eternal existence is a pledge of faithfulness to His promises. in the way--of providence. weakened--literally, "afflicted," and made fearful of a premature end, a figure of the apprehensions of the Church, lest God might not perform His promise, drawn from those of a person in view of the dangers of early death…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 The children of thy servants shall continue - Thy Church shall be permanent, because founded on thee, it shall live throughout all the revolutions of time. And as thy followers are made partakers of the Divine nature they shall live in union with God in the other world, deriving eternal duration from the inexhaustible Fountain of being. Nothing can be permanent but by God's supporting and renewing influence.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 102:23-28

Bodily distempers soon weaken our strength, then what can we expect but that our months should be cut off in the midst; and what should we do but provide accordingly? We must own God's hand in it; and must reconcile this to his love, for often those that have used their strength well, have it weakened; and those who, as we think, can very ill be spared, have their days shortened. It is very comfortable, in reference…

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Psalms 102:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּנֵֽי\־be.nei-[the] children ofH1121
עֲבָדֶ֥יךָ'a.va.Dei.khaservants yourH5650
יִשְׁכּ֑וֹנוּyish.Ko.nuthey will dwellH7931
וְ֝זַרְעָ֗םve.zar.'Amand offspring theirH2233
לְפָנֶ֥יךָle.fa.Nei.kha<to> before youH6440
יִכּֽוֹן\׃yi.Konit will be establishedH3559

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 102:28

  • Psalms 69:35-36

    For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

  • Psalms 45:16-17

    Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

  • Isaiah 66:22

    For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

  • Psalms 89:4

    Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

  • Psalms 90:16-17

    Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 59:20-21

    And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

  • Isaiah 65:22

    They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

  • Psalms 22:30-31

    A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The children.
22:30,31; 45:16,17; 69:35,36; Isa 53:10; 59:20,21; 65:22; 66:22
their seed.
90:16,17

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Context

  • Psalms 102:27

    But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

  • Psalms 102:28

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

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Psalms 102:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Los hijos de tus siervos habitarán, y su simiente será afirmada delante de ti.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais toi, tu es le Même, et tes années ne finiront pas.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Söhne deiner Knechte werden wohnen, und ihr Same wird vor dir feststehen.