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Psalm 119:90

Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

88Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMEDH
89LORD, your word is settled in heaven forever.
90Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
91Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
92Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Notice

The earth that remains gives a visible scale to God's faithfulness, reaching beyond your own lifetime to every generation.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 100:5For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.Both verses declare that God's faithfulness extends to all generations.
Romans 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power …Both passages direct attention to the created world as evidence of the God who made it.
Psalm 36:5Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.Both verses speak of God's faithfulness in terms that stretch beyond a single human life, through generations or to the skies.
Psalm 148:6He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.Both verses trace creation's endurance to God, who established what remains.
Micah 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.Both passages speak of God's faithfulness across generations, with Micah naming promises sworn to the fathers.
Psalm 89:1A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all …Both verses join God's faithfulness with all generations; Psalm 89 makes that faithfulness the subject of song and speech.
Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love …Both verses describe God's faithfulness across generations; Deuteronomy speaks of his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments.
2 Peter 3:5–7For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,Both verses attribute the earth's existence to God; Peter specifies that it was formed by God's word.
Jeremiah 10:12God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.Both verses say God established the earth; Jeremiah names his power and wisdom in doing so.
Job 38:4–7“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.Both verses identify God as the one who established the earth, with Job using the language of laying foundations.
Ecclesiastes 1:4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.Both verses speak of generations and an earth that remains; Ecclesiastes makes the passing of each generation explicit.
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One step

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Read Psalm 119:88–92 aloud, pausing over what remains

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Encouragement

Your lifetime does not set the limits of God's faithfulness. The God who established the earth remains faithful to generations before and after you.

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