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Psalms 145:4
One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God, extending the praise declared in Psalms 145:3 into a forward-looking chain of testimony. The speaker frames the proclamation not as a single event but as a continuous act of passing divine records across time.
The words — The Hebrew דּוֹר (dor) literally means "generation," paired with יַגִּידוּ (yagidû), meaning "they will declare." These terms ground the verse in the mechanical transmission of specific reports rather than abstract sentiment.
The thread — This intergenerational relay appears in Psalms 71:18, where aging does not stop the proclamation of might, and in Psalms 78:3, which notes the direct handoff from fathers to descendants. Deuteronomy 6:7 similarly mandates the diligent teaching of these acts during ordinary daily movement.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to treat the proclamation of God's works as a structured duty of succession. It demands active participation in recording and delivering specific accounts to those who will follow.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Cross-references
- Psalms 71:18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- Psalms 78:3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Isaiah 38:19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Joshua 4:21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
- Psalms 44:1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- Exodus 12:26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
- Exodus 13:14 In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.