Psalms 78:4

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We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

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  • Deut 11:19 : 19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:
  • Joel 1:3 : 3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
  • Deut 6:7 : 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
  • Ps 145:4-6 : 4 One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength. 5 My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works. 6 Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory.
  • Josh 4:6-7 : 6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? 7 Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.
  • Josh 4:21-24 : 21 And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? 22 Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land. 23 For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across: 24 So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.
  • Job 15:18 : 18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
  • Ps 9:14 : 14 So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.
  • Ps 10:1-5 : 1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble? 2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention. 3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him. 4 The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God. 5 His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
  • Ps 26:7 : 7 That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.
  • Ps 71:17-18 : 17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now. 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
  • Isa 63:7-9 : 7 I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies. 8 For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble. 9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years. 10 But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them. 11 Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them, 12 He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name; 13 He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land? 14 Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name. 15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies: 16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause. 17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. 18 Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters? 19 We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
  • Exod 12:26 : 26 And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?
  • Exod 13:8 : 8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:14 : 14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:5-8
    4 verses
    84%

    5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

    6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

    7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

    8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Ps 78:3
    83%

    3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

  • Ps 145:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4 One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

    5 My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works.

    6 Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory.

  • Joel 1:3
    77%

    3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

  • Ps 44:1
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

  • Ps 90:16
    73%

    16 Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

  • Ps 145:12
    73%

    12 So that the sons of men may have knowledge of his acts of power, and of the great glory of his kingdom.

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

    28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

  • 1 Chr 16:24
    72%

    24 Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.

  • Ps 79:13
    72%

    13 So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

  • Deut 29:29
    72%

    29 The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

  • Ps 105:5
    72%

    5 Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;

  • Ps 111:4
    71%

    4 Certain for ever is the memory of his wonders: the Lord is full of pity and mercy.

  • Josh 22:24
    71%

    24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Ps 96:3
    71%

    3 Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.

  • Ps 102:18
    71%

    18 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 16:12
    71%

    12 Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;

  • Job 15:18
    71%

    18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

  • Deut 11:2
    70%

    2 And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

  • Deut 4:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

    10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • Ps 22:30
    70%

    30 A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

  • Ps 105:8
    70%

    8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Ps 78:11
    70%

    11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

  • Isa 38:19
    70%

    19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Exod 13:14
    69%

    14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:

  • Deut 31:13
    69%

    13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Ps 105:2
    69%

    2 Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.

  • Ps 111:6
    69%

    6 He has made clear to his people the power of his works, giving them the heritage of the nations.

  • Exod 10:2
    69%

    2 And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

  • Ps 103:7
    69%

    7 He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel.

  • Deut 6:20
    69%

    20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

  • 1 Chr 16:9
    69%

    9 Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.

  • Ps 103:17
    69%

    17 But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

  • Ps 71:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

    18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

  • Ps 89:30
    69%

    30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

  • 1 Chr 16:15
    68%

    15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Job 17:4
    68%

    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • Ps 77:11
    68%

    11 I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.

  • Ps 107:8
    68%

    8 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!