Ecclesiastes 1:4
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
BSB
ASV
One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
KJV
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
"A generation goes, a generation comes, but the earth remains forever." While some men die, others are born, and those you had seen, are not seen anymore, and you then see those who have not been before. What is more vain than this vanity, than that the earth remains, which was made on account of mankind? And that man himself, the master of the earth, should be suddenly returned to the dust?
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh,.... This shows that a man can have no profit of all his labour under the sun, because of his short continuance; as soon almost as he has got anything by his labour, he must leave it: not only particular persons, but families, nations, and kingdoms; even all the inhabitants of the world, that are contemporaries, live together in the same age, in a certain period of time; these gradually go off by death, till the whole generation is consumed, as the generation of the Israelites in the wilderness were.
One generation passeth away - Men succeed each other in unceasing generations: but the earth is still the same; it undergoes no change that leads to melioration, or greater perfection. And it will continue the same לעולם leolam, during the whole course of time; till the end of all things arrives.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
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The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
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Psalms 104:5He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
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He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
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Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him…
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You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
