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Why, in the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and, steered by your hand, preserved the seed of a new generation for the ages to come. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
Many will praise his intelligence and it will never be forgotten. His memory will not disappear, generation after generation his name will live. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 9)
Who has acted thus, who has done this? He who calls each generation from the beginning: I, Yahweh, who am the first and till the last I shall still be there.' (Isaiah 41, 4)
Now you of this generation, listen to what Yahweh says: Have I been a desert for Israel, or a land of gloom? Why do my people say, "We are our own masters, we will come to you no more"? (Jeremiah 2, 31)
Tell your children about it and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation! (Joel 1, 3)
But Judah will be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation! (Joel 4, 20)
'What comparison can I find for this generation? It is like children shouting to each other as they sit in the market place: (Matthew 11, 16)
He replied, 'It is an evil and unfaithful generation that asks for a sign! The only sign it will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonah. (Matthew 12, 39)
On Judgement Day the men of Nineveh will appear against this generation and they will be its condemnation, because when Jonah preached they repented; and look, there is something greater than Jonah here. (Matthew 12, 41)
On Judgement Day the Queen of the South will appear against this generation and be its condemnation, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look, there is something greater than Solomon here. (Matthew 12, 42)
it then goes off and collects seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and set up house there, and so that person ends up worse off than before. That is what will happen to this wicked generation.' (Matthew 12, 45)
It is an evil and unfaithful generation asking for a sign, and the only sign it will be given is the sign of Jonah.' And he left them and went off. (Matthew 16, 4)