Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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

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

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

The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

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.

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

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

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

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.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

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

A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.