Psalms 77:6
That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ut cognoscat generatio altera : filii qui nascentur et exsurgent, et narrabunt filiis suis,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅπως ἂν γνῷ γενεὰ ἑτέρα, υἱοὶ οἱ τεχθησόμενοι, καὶ ἀναστήσονται καὶ ἀπαγγελοῦσιν αὐτὰ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:6
- לְמַ֤עַן יֵדְע֨וּ דּ֣וֹר אַ֭חֲרוֹן בָּנִ֣ים יִוָּלֵ֑דוּ יָ֝קֻ֗מוּ וִֽיסַפְּר֥וּ לִבְנֵיהֶֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
3. Nevertheless, neither then nor now without profit is the voice of him, saying, “Hearken ye, My people, to My law.” Which expression is remarkable in all the Scriptures, how he saith not, “hearken thou,” but, “hearken ye.” For of many men a people doth consist: to which many that which followeth is spoken in the plural number. “Incline ye your ear unto the words of My mouth.” “Hearken ye,” is the same as, “Incline your ear:” and what He saith there, “My law,” this He saith here in, “the words of My mouth.” For that man doth godly hearken to the law of God, and the words of His mouth, whose ear humility doth incline: not he whose neck pride doth lift up. For whatever is poured in is received on the concave surface of humility, is shaken off from the convexity of swelling. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
7. “How great things,” he saith, “He hath commanded our fathers, to make the same known to their sons?” ( ver. 5 ). “That another generation may know, sons who shall be born and shall rise up, and they may tell to their sons” ( ver. 6 ). “That they may put their hope in God, and may not forget the works of God, and may seek out His commandments” ( ver. 7 ). “That they may not become, like their fathers, a crooked and embittering generation: a generation that hath not guided their heart, and the spirit thereof hath not been trusted with God” ( ver. 8 ). …