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Lexicon :: Strong's H1755 - dôr

Aa
דּוֹר
Transliteration
dôr
Pronunciation
dore
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 418b

Strong’s Definitions

דּוֹר dôwr, dore; or (shortened) דֹּר dôr; from H1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling:—age, × evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x

The KJV translates Strong's H1755 in the following manner: generation (133x), all (18x), many (6x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x
The KJV translates Strong's H1755 in the following manner: generation (133x), all (18x), many (6x), miscellaneous (10x).

  1. period, generation, habitation, dwelling

    1. period, age, generation (period of time)

    2. generation (those living during a period)

    3. generation (characterised by quality, condition, class of men)

    4. dwelling-place, habitation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דּוֹר dôwr, dore; or (shortened) דֹּר dôr; from H1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling:—age, × evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.
STRONGS H1755: Abbreviations
† I. דּוֺר, דֹּר noun masculineDeuteronomy 32:5 period, generation, dwelling (compare below verb above; also Late Hebrew דּוֺר, Aramaic (included Biblical Aramaic) H1859 דָּר, RxD, age, generation; Arabic دَوْرً gyrus, orbis, periodus; Sabean דר, one time, once, דרם דרם each once in a year DHM in MV) — absolute דּוֺר Genesis 7:1 + 68 times; דֹּר Exodus 3:15; + 36 times; construct דּוֺר Deuteronomy 32:20 + 7 times, דֹּר Exodus 3:15; suffix דּוֺרִי Isaiah 38:12, דּוֺרוֺ Isaiah 53:8; plural דּוֺרִים Psalm 72:5 + 2 times, דֹּרוֺת absolute Job 42:16; Isaiah 41:4; construct Judges 3:2; דּוֺרוֺת construct Isaiah 51:9, דֹּרֹת Genesis 9:12; suffix דֹּרֹתָיו Genesis 6:9; Leviticus 25:30, דּוֺרוֺתֵינוּ Joshua 22:27, דֹּרֹתֵינוּ Joshua 22:28, דּרֹתֵיכֶם Genesis 17:12 + 27 times, דֹּרֹתָם Genesis 17:7 + 10 times; —
1. period, age, generation, mostly poetic:
a. of duration in the past, former age(s) דּוֺרוֺת עוֺלָמִים Isaiah 51:9 (|| קדם ימי); שְׁנוֺת דֹּר וָדֹר Deuteronomy 32:7 (song; || ימות עולם); בְּדֹר וָדֹר Psalm 90:1 (compare Psalm 90:2); מוֺסְדֵי דּוֺרוָֿדוֺר Isaiah 58:12 (|| חרבות עולם); שֹׁמֲמוֺת דּוֺר וָדוֺר Isaiah 61:4 (|| id.)
b. usually of duration to come, future age(s), לְדֹר דֹּר Exodus 3:15 (E; || לעולם) compare Proverbs 27:24 Kt (Qr לְדוֺר וָדוֺר; || id.); מִדֹּר דֹּר Exodus 17:16 (E), = מִדּוֺר לָדוֺר Isaiah 34:10; לְדֹר וָדֹר Psalm 10:6; Psalm 33:11 (|| לעולם) Psalm 49:12; Psalm 79:13; Psalm 85:6; Psalm 102:13; Psalm 119:90; Psalm 135:13; Psalm 146:10; Joel 4:20 (all || id.); Psalm 89:2 (|| עולם) Psalm 89:5 (|| עדעֿולם) Psalm 106:31 (|| id.) Isaiah 34:17 (|| id.); Psalm 77:9 (|| לנצח); עַדדֹּֿר וָדֹר Psalm 100:5 (|| לעולם) Isaiah 13:20 (|| לנצח) Jeremiah 50:39 (|| id.); בְּכָלדֹּֿר וָדֹר Jeremiah 45:18 (|| לעולם ועד) compare Esther 9:28; שְׁנוֺתָיו כְּמוֺ דֹר וָדֹר Psalm 61:7 compare שְׁנֵי דּוֺר וָדוֺר Joel 2:2 (|| העולם); as modifying phrase מְשׂוֺשׂ דּוֺר וָדוֺר Isaiah 60:15 (|| נאון עולם); further דּוֺר דּוֺרִים Psalm 72:5; יְשׁוּעָתִי לְדוֺר דּוֺרִים Isaiah 51:8 (|| לעולם).
c. apparently including both past and future בְּדוֺר דּוֺרִים שְׁנוֺתֶיךָ Psalm 102:25; בְּכָל דּוֺר וָדֹר Psalm 145:13; לְדוֺר וָדוֺר Lamentations 5:19.
2. of men living at a particular time (period, age), generation, as transitory דּוֺר הֹלֵךְ וְדוֺר בָּא Ecclesiastes 1:4: specifically
a. in the present, and (or) the past Genesis 7:1 (J) Exodus 1:6 (P) Numbers 32:13 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:35; Deuteronomy 2:14; Judges 2:10 (twice in verse); Isaiah 53:8 (compare Che critical note) Jeremiah 2:31; also Psalm 95:10; Job 8:8; Isaiah 41:4.
b. Judges 3:2 (present & future); compare plural דֹּרֹתָיו Genesis 6:9 (i.e. his own Generation and those immediately contiguous, before and after).
c. especially of a future Generation Genesis 15:16 (JE), with numeral, compare Deuteronomy 23:3; Deuteronomy 23:4; Deuteronomy 23:9; also Deuteronomy 29:21; Psalm 48:14; Psalm 71:18; Psalm 78:4; Psalm 78:6; Psalm 102:19; Psalm 109:13; Joel 1:3 compare Psalm 22:31; Psalm 22:32 (Checritical note); of a succession of generations דּוֺר לְדוֺר יְשַׂבַּח מַעֲשֶׂיךָ Psalm 145:4; בְּכָלדּֿוֺר וָדוֺר Esther 9:28; usually plural לְדֹרֹת עוֺלָם Genesis 9:12 (P); with number לְאֶלֶף דּוֺר Psalm 105:8 (|| עולם) = 1 Chronicles 16:15 (|| לעולם); Deuteronomy 7:9; see further, of posterity, אַרְבָּעָה דֹּרוֺת Job 42:16; usually plural with suffix Genesis 17:7, 9, 12; Exodus 12:14, 17, 42; Exodus 16:32, 33; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 29:42; Exodus 30:8, 10, 21, 31; Exodus 31:13, 16; Exodus 40:15; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 10:9 (all P); Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 21:17; Leviticus 22:3; Leviticus 23:14, 21, 31, 41, 43; Leviticus 24:3; Leviticus 25:30 (all H); Numbers 9:10; Numbers 10:8; Numbers 15:14, 15, 21, 23, 38; Numbers 18:23; Numbers 35:29; Joshua 22:27, 28 (all P).
3. generation characterized by quality or condition, class of men: דּוֺר עִקֵּשׁ crooked Generation Deuteronomy 32:5 (song) compare Deuteronomy 32:20; Psalm 78:8 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:29; of different classes of wicked, Proverbs 30:11, 12, 13, 14 compare Psalm 12:8; of the righteous, as a class Psalm 14:5; Psalm 24:6; Psalm 73:15 (בָּנֶיךָ דּוֺר) Psalm 112:2 (compare Psalm 22:31 MT, but < Che joins לדור to Psalm 22:32 compare above below 2c); so also דּוֺר אֲבוֺתָיו i.e. the dead Psalm 49:20 (so most; yet see below below 4).
4. dwelling-place, habitation Isaiah 38:12 compare דּוּר verb, so Saad Ki Ges De Che RVm (Ew life || חַיַּי); so also Psalm 49:20 De Witt, compare CheOP 479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:9; 6:9; 7:1; 7:1; 9:12; 9:12; 15:16; 17:7; 17:7; 17:9; 17:12; 17:12

Exodus

1:6; 3:15; 3:15; 3:15; 12:14; 12:17; 12:42; 16:32; 16:33; 17:16; 27:21; 29:42; 30:8; 30:10; 30:21; 30:31; 31:13; 31:16; 40:15

Leviticus

3:17; 6:11; 7:36; 10:9; 17:7; 21:17; 22:3; 23:14; 23:21; 23:31; 23:41; 23:43; 24:3; 25:30; 25:30

Numbers

9:10; 10:8; 15:14; 15:15; 15:21; 15:23; 15:38; 18:23; 32:13; 35:29

Deuteronomy

1:35; 2:14; 7:9; 23:3; 23:4; 23:9; 29:21; 32:5; 32:5; 32:7; 32:20; 32:20

Joshua

22:27; 22:27; 22:28; 22:28

Judges

2:10; 3:2; 3:2

1 Chronicles

16:15

Esther

9:28; 9:28

Job

8:8; 42:16; 42:16

Psalms

10:6; 12:8; 14:5; 22:31; 22:31; 24:6; 33:11; 48:14; 49:12; 49:20; 49:20; 61:7; 71:18; 72:5; 72:5; 73:15; 77:9; 78:4; 78:6; 78:8; 79:13; 85:6; 89:2; 89:5; 90:1; 90:2; 95:10; 100:5; 102:13; 102:19; 102:25; 105:8; 106:31; 109:13; 112:2; 119:90; 135:13; 145:4; 145:13; 146:10

Proverbs

27:24; 30:11; 30:12; 30:13; 30:14

Ecclesiastes

1:4

Isaiah

13:20; 34:10; 34:17; 38:12; 38:12; 41:4; 41:4; 51:8; 51:9; 51:9; 53:8; 53:8; 58:12; 60:15; 61:4

Jeremiah

2:31; 7:29; 50:39

Lamentations

5:19

Joel

1:3; 2:2

H1755

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Strong's Number H1755 matches the Hebrew דּוֹר (dôr),
which occurs 168 times in 127 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Deu 7:9–Psa 135:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:2 - “One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:3 - “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:8 - “The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - “so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:5 - “They have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A perverse and crooked generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - “Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:20 - And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:27 - ‘but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, “You have no part in the LORD.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:28 - “Therefore we said that it will be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, ‘Here is the replica of the altar of the LORD which our fathers made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - (this was only so that the generations of the children of Israel might be taught to know war, at least those who had not formerly known it),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:15 - Remember His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city, that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, and that the memory of them should not perish among their descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 - “For inquire, please, of the former age,
And consider the things discovered by their fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:16 - After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:6 - He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
I shall never be in adversity.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:7 - You shall keep them, O LORD,
You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:5 - There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:30 - A posterity shall serve Him.
It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:6 - This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face. Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:11 - The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:17 - I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:13 - Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may tell it to the generation following.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:11 - Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,[fn]
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:19 - He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:6 - You will prolong the king’s life,
His years as many generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:18 - Now also when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:5 - They shall fear You[fn]
As long as the sun and moon endure,
Throughout all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:15 - If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:8 - Has His mercy ceased forever?
Has His promise failed forevermore?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:4 - We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:6 - That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - And may not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 - So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
We will show forth Your praise to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:5 - Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:1 - A Contemplation[fn] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever;
With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:4 - ‘Your seed I will establish forever,
And build up your throne to all generations.’ ” Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:1 - A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

Lord, You have been our dwelling place[fn] in all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10 - For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:5 - For the LORD is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:12 - But You, O LORD, shall endure forever,
And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:18 - This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:24 - I said, “O my God,
Do not take me away in the midst of my days;
Your years are throughout all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:8 - He remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31 - And that was accounted to him for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:13 - Let his posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:2 - His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:90

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:90 - Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
You established the earth, and it abides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:13 - Your name, O LORD, endures forever,
Your fame, O LORD, throughout all generations.

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