¹⁶And king David went in and sat before Jehovah, and said, Who am I, Jehovah Elohim, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? ¹⁷And this hath been a small thing in thy sight, O God; and thou hast spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, Jehovah Elohim. ¹⁸What can David say more to thee for the glory of thy servant? thou indeed knowest thy servant. ¹⁹Jehovah, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. ²⁰Jehovah, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²¹And who is like thy people Israel, the one nation in the earth that God went to redeem to be a people to himself, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, which thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? ²²And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God. ²³And now, Jehovah, let the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said. ²⁴Let it even be established, and let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, is God to Israel; and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee. ²⁵For thou, my God, hast revealed to thy servant that thou wilt build him a house; therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray before thee. ²⁶And now, Jehovah, thou art that God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant; ²⁷and now, let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever; for thou, Jehovah, hast blessed it, and it shall be blessed for ever.

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