Quotes About Legacy

The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.

Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.

I will commemorate your name through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you forever and ever.

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

that he should live on forever and not see decay.

For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.

For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

Increase the days of the kingís life; may his years span many generations.

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

May they fear him as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon remains, through all generations.

May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

ëI will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.í” Selah

I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.