Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 102:28
28Your servants’ children will dwell securely, and their offspring will be established before you.”
Psalms 102:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
- New International Version (NIV)The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.”
Context of Psalms 102:28
26They will perish, but you will endure; all of them will wear out like clothing. You will change them like a garment, and they will pass away. 27But you are the same, and your years will never end. Your servants’ children will dwell securely, and their offspring will be established before you.”
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:28 word by word
בְּנֵֽי־עֲבָדֶ֥יךָ יִשְׁכּ֑וֹנוּ וְ֝זַרְעָ֗ם לְפָנֶ֥יךָ יִכּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:28
- Psalms 22:30Their descendants will serve him; the next generation will be told about the Lord.
- Psalms 45:16Your sons will succeed your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.
- Psalms 69:35for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it.
- Isaiah 53:10Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him severely. When you make him a guilt offering, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
- Isaiah 59:20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those in Jacob who turn from transgression.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Isaiah 65:22They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For my people’s lives will be like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
- Isaiah 66:22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will remain before me” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “so your offspring and your name will remain.
- Psalms 90:16Let your work be seen by your servants, and your splendor by their children.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28The 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28The children of thy servants shall continue - The descendants of those that serve and obey thee. This represents the confident expectation of the psalmist that, as God was unchangeable, all his promises toward his people would be fulfilled, even though the heavens and the earth should pass away. God was the same. His word would not fail. His promises were sure. Compare Matthew 5:18; Matthew 24:35. The word rendered “continue,” means to dwell, as in a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-28Verses 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 to all the changes and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28The Lord’s presence provides the basis for the security and happiness of his people (Psalm 23:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 23-2823-28. 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 (compare Psa 89:47). Paul (He 1:10)…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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