Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms 145:4 in other translations
| BSB | One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts— |
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| WEB | One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. |
| ASV | One generation shall laud thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts. |
| YLT | Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare. |
| DARBY | One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. |
| BBE | One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength. |
| Webster | One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. |
What does Psalms 145:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 145:1-9
Those who, under troubles and temptations, abound in fervent prayer, shall in due season abound in grateful praise, which is the true language of holy joy. Especially we should speak of God's wondrous work of redemption, while we declare his greatness. For no deliverance of the Israelites, nor the punishment of sinners, so clearly proclaims the justice of God, as the cross of Christ exhibits it to the enlightened…
Psalms 145:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 145:4
- Psalms 71:18
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
- Psalms 78:3-7
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: …
- Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Deuteronomy 6:7
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Joshua 4:21-24
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.
- Psalms 44:1-2
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
- Exodus 12:26-27
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
- Exodus 13:14-15
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
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Context
- Psalms 145:3
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
- Psalms 145:5
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
Psalms 145:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Generación á generación narrará tus obras, y anunciarán tus valentías. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Une génération célébrera tes œuvres auprès de l’autre génération, et elles raconteront tes actes puissants. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein Geschlecht wird dem anderen rühmen deine Werke, und deine Machttaten werden sie verkünden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Exibit spiritus ejus, et revertetur in terram suam; in illa die peribunt omnes cogitationes eorum. |