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Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.

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

"Now the next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,

This is [the fulfillment of] the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons (descendants) shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." And so it came to pass.

You, O LORD, will preserve and keep them; You will protect him from this [evil] generation forever.

This is the generation (description) of those who diligently seek Him and require Him as their greatest need, Who seek Your face, even [as did] Jacob. Selah.

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

If I had said, "I will say this," [and expressed my feelings], I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, "Where is their God?" Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation], Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

Let this be recorded for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created will praise the LORD.

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market places, who call to the others,

"The men of Nineveh will stand up [as witnesses] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now, something greater than Jonah is here.

"The Queen of the South (Sheba) will stand up [as a witness] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and now, something greater than Solomon is here.

"Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there. And the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. So will it also be with this wicked generation."

"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, [the judgment for] all these things [these vile and murderous deeds] will come on this generation.

"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, this generation [the people living when these signs and events begin] will not pass away until all these things take place.

He groaned and sighed deeply in His spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you and most solemnly say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!"

"For whoever is ashamed [here and now] 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."

"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, this generation [the people living when these signs and events begin] will not pass away until all these things take place.

"To what then shall I compare the people of this generation [who set aside God's plan], and what are they like?