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Psalm 102:28

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

26They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
27But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
28The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
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Notice

The children and their offspring carry the psalm’s hope beyond one person’s lifespan, toward a future established before the God whose years have no end.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.Both texts look beyond one generation to descendants, with Proverbs describing an inheritance and the psalm describing their continuance before God.
Psalm 112:2His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.Both passages express confidence about descendants: the servants’ offspring will be established, and the upright’s generation will be blessed.
Psalm 69:36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.Both name the children of God’s servants and describe a secure future for them.
Psalm 69:35–36For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.Both describe lasting security for God’s people, through settlement in Judah’s cities in Psalm 69 and descendants established in Psalm 102.
Psalm 45:16–17Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.Both look toward a succeeding generation, though Psalm 45 speaks of sons becoming princes and Psalm 102 of servants’ descendants continuing.
Jeremiah 30:20Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.Both mention children and describe a people established before God.
Isaiah 66:22“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says the LORD, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.Both connect offspring remaining before God with endurance, which Isaiah compares to the new heavens and new earth.
Isaiah 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.Both describe security connected to God, though Isaiah names refuge in Zion and the psalm names descendants established before him.
Isaiah 65:22They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will …Both describe continuance for God’s people, with Isaiah emphasizing long lives and enjoyment of their work.
Isaiah 53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his …Both speak of offspring, though Isaiah places that hope within an account of suffering and an offering for sin.
Jeremiah 31:36“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the LORD, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”Both describe descendants continuing before God, with Jeremiah naming Israel’s enduring existence as a nation.
Zechariah 10:7Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their children will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in the …Both include children in the future of God’s people, with Zechariah describing their joy in the LORD.
Where this verse fits

Parenting. aging. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

The prayer ends with a future beyond the sufferer’s own years. Its confidence rests in the God who endures: the next generation will be established before him.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).