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Psalm 90:16
Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
14Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
16Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
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The prayer reaches from God’s servants to their children, voicing a hope that his work and glory will be seen across generations.
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John 11:40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”Both speak of seeing God’s glory: the psalm asks for children to see it, and Jesus connects seeing it with faith.
Habakkuk 3:2LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In …Both prayers ask God to make his work known, with affliction in the psalm’s surrounding lines and wrath in Habakkuk’s prayer.
2 Corinthians 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face …Both concern God making his glory known; Paul speaks of that knowledge shining in hearts through the face of Jesus Christ.
Psalm 44:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their …God’s work links the generations in both passages: one asks for children to see his glory, while the other recalls fathers telling his deeds.
Psalm 92:4For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.God’s work is central to both verses: Psalm 90 asks for it to appear, while Psalm 92 expresses gladness through it.
Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.Both name God’s work; the psalm asks for it to appear, while Deuteronomy declares that his work is perfect.
Psalm 78:6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,Both look toward children and the generation to come, extending concern beyond those who are speaking.
Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will …Both include children in God’s dealings with his people: the psalm asks for glory, while Deuteronomy promises them possession of the land.
Numbers 14:15–24Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,Both address God about his dealings with people, though Numbers speaks of threatened death and what the nations would say.
Psalm 77:12I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.Both direct attention to God’s work: one asks for it to appear, and the other resolves to meditate on it.
Numbers 14:30–31surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of …The shared thread is broad: God’s dealings with his people, with exclusion from land in Numbers and a request for glory in the psalm.
Joshua 23:14“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things …Both concern God’s work among his people: the psalm asks to see it, while Joshua recounts the good things God has brought about.
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After years of affliction, this prayer still asks God to make his work seen. The children have a place in that request: his glory matters for them too.
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