Psalms 22:30

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Our children will also serve him. Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord.

English Revised Version
A seed shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

Update Bible Version
A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord to the [next] generation.

New Century Version
The people in the future will serve him; they will always be told about the Lord.

New English Translation
A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

World English Bible
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Amplified Bible
Posterity will serve Him; They will tell of the Lord to the next generation.

English Standard Version
Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And my soule schal lyue to hym; and my seed schal serue him.

Berean Standard Bible
Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Contemporary English Version
In the future, everyone will worship and learn about you, our Lord.

American Standard Version
A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

Bible in Basic English
A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

Complete Jewish Bible
All who prosper on the earth will eat and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him, including him who can't keep himself alive,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Our descendants will serve him. Those who are not yet born will be told about him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall kneel before Him,

King James Version (1611)
A seed shall serue him; it shalbe accounted to the Lord for a generation.

New Life Bible
Future children will serve Him. They will tell of the Lord to their children.

New Revised Standard
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.

George Lamsa Translation
An offspring shall serve him; the generations thereof shall proclaim the LORD.

Good News Translation
Future generations will serve him; they will speak of the Lord to the coming generation.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My seed, shall serve him, It shall he recounted, of the Lord, to a generation that shall come:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-31) And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

Revised Standard Version
Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The posteritie shall serue hym: they shalbe counted vnto the Lorde for a generation.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord.

Christian Standard Bible®
Their descendants will serve him;the next generation will be told about the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Lexham English Bible
Descendants will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation.

Literal Translation
A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of the Lord to the coming generation;

Young's Literal Translation
A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All they that lye in the dust, and lyue so hardly, shall fall downe before him.

THE MESSAGE
Our children and their children will get in on this As the word is passed along from parent to child. Babies not yet conceived will hear the good news— that God does what he says.

New American Standard Bible
A posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

New King James Version
A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their seed will serve Him;It will be recounted about the Lord to the coming generation.

Contextual Overview

²² I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. ²³ Ye that fear the Lord , praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. ²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. ²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. ²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. ²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. ²⁸ For the kingdom is the Lord 's: and he is the governor among the nations. ²⁹ All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. ³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. ³¹ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A seed: Isaiah 53:10, Hebrews 2:13

it shall: Psalms 14:5, Psalms 24:6, Psalms 73:15, Psalms 87:6, Matthew 3:9, Galatians 3:26-29, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:23 - all ye the Psalms 45:16 - Instead Psalms 45:17 - I will Psalms 102:18 - the people Psalms 102:28 - The children Isaiah 8:18 - I and the Jeremiah 33:22 - so Matthew 13:38 - the good Acts 8:33 - and who Romans 9:8 - are counted 2 Corinthians 6:18 - a Father

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A seed shall serve him,.... That is, Christ shall always have a seed to serve him in every age; a remnant according to the election of grace; see Romans 9:29; so that as the former verses speak of the amplitude of Christ's kingdom, through the calling of the Gentiles, these words and the following express the duration of it: and this "seed" either means Christ's seed; so the Septuagint version, and others that follow it, render it, "my seed"; the spiritual seed and offspring of Christ, which the Father has given him, and which shall endure for ever, Isaiah 53:10; or else the church's seed, which comes to the same thing; not the natural seed of believers, but a succession of godly men in the church, who are born in her, and nursed up at her side; see Isaiah 59:21; such shall, and do, in every age serve Christ, willingly and cheerfully, in righteousness and true holiness, without slavish fear, and yet with reverence and godly fear. The Chaldee paraphrase is, "the seed of Abraham shall serve before him"; but this seed designs not the Jews only, but the Gentiles also, and chiefly;

it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation; of his people, his children whom he accounts of, reckons, and esteems as such; or the seed shall be reckoned to the Lord, as belonging to him, "unto generation"; that is, in every generation q, throughout all ages, to the end of time; so the Targum, "to an after generation"; or "a generation to come".

q לדור "in quacunque generatione", Noldius, p. 236. No. 1076.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A seed shall serve him - A people; a race. The word used here, and rendered “seed” - זרע zera‛ - means properly “a sowing;” then, a planting, a plantation; then. seed sown - of plants, trees, or grain; and then, a generation of men - children, offspring, posterity: Genesis 3:15; Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:13; et al. Hence, it means a race, stock, or family. It is used here as denoting those who belong to the family of God; his children. Compare Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 65:9, Isaiah 65:23. The meaning here is, that, as the result of the work performed by the sufferer, many would be brought to serve God.

It - To wit, the seed mentioned; the people referred to.

Shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation - The word here rendered “Lord” is not יהוה Yahweh, but אדני 'Âdônay, a word which is often used as a name of God - and should not be printed here in small capitals. Prof. Alexander renders this, it seems to me improperly, “It shall be related of the Lord to the next generation.” So DeWette and Hengstenberg. But the common rendering appears to me to furnish a better signification, and to be more in accordance with the meaning of the original. According to this the idea is, that the seed - the people referred to - would be reckoned to the Lord as a generation of his own people, a race, a tribe, a family pertaining to him. They would be regarded as such by him; they would be so estimated by mankind. They would not be a generation of aliens and strangers, but a generation of his people and friends. Compare Psalms 87:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:30. Shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. — They shall be called Christians after the name of Christ.