The Meaning of Psalms 102:18 Explained

Psalms 102:18

KJV: This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

YLT: This is written for a later generation, And the people created do praise Jah.

Darby: This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people that shall be created shall praise Jah:

ASV: This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

This shall be written  for the generation  to come:  and the people  which shall be created  shall praise  the LORD. 

What does Psalms 102:18 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 102:12-28 - The Time To Have Mercy Upon Zion
We must remember that the Holy Spirit appropriates the closing words of this psalm as addressed to our Lord. See Hebrews 1:10-12. This gives new point to these petitions. The psalmist's sorrows, described in the previous paragraph, had their source in the desolations of Zion rather than in personal afflictions; and when the soul feels such oppression, it is a sign that deliverance is near. Finney, the great evangelist, tells of a woman who came to her pastor under such concern for the perishing that she could neither eat nor sleep. She entreated him to appoint an inquirers' meeting, and though there had been no signs of a revival, it suddenly broke out. When Christians take pity on the stones and dust of the Church, the time has come for God to arise to her help.
Behold the unchanging Christ! Creation may wax old, the heavens and earth may be laid aside as an outworn garment, the old order may give place to new; but beneath all the changed Jesus Christ remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. How delightful are those immortal words, But thou, O Lord, shalt endure, and if He endures, His servants shall continue also, and their children after them. [source]

Chapter Summary: Psalms 102

1  The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint
12  He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God
18  The mercies of God are to be recorded
23  He sustains his weakness by the unchangeableness of God

What do the individual words in Psalms 102:18 mean?

Will be written this for the generation to come that a people yet to be created may praise YAH
תִּכָּ֣תֶב זֹ֭את לְד֣וֹר אַחֲר֑וֹן וְעַ֥ם נִ֝בְרָ֗א יְהַלֶּל־ יָֽהּ

תִּכָּ֣תֶב  Will  be  written 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: כָּתַב  
Sense: to write, record, enrol.
זֹ֭את  this 
Parse: Pronoun, feminine singular
Root: זׄאת  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, such.
לְד֣וֹר  for  the  generation 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular
Root: דֹּור 
Sense: period, generation, habitation, dwelling.
אַחֲר֑וֹן  to  come 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: אַחֲרֹון  
Sense: behind, following, subsequent, western.
וְעַ֥ם  that  a  people 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
נִ֝בְרָ֗א  yet  to  be  created 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: בָּרָא 
Sense: to create, shape, form.
יְהַלֶּל־  may  praise 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: הָלַל 
Sense: to shine.
יָֽהּ  YAH 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יָהּ  
Sense: Jah (Jehovah in the shortened form).