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Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.

'Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,

This is the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." And so it was.

You, LORD, will keep them; You will protect him from this generation forever.

This is the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face—even Jacob. Selah

And even when I am old and gray, God, do not abandon me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to all who are to come.

If I had said, "I will speak this way," Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call out to the other children,

"The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

"The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

"Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation."

"Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!"

"For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

"To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Now as the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it demands a sign, and so no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

"For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.