⁷So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel, ⁸and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut down all your enemies from before you and will make a name for you, like the name of the great ones on the earth. ⁹And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them,^a and they^b shall dwell in their^c place and be in anguish no longer. And wicked men will no longer wear them down as before, ¹⁰from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies, and I declare to you that Yahweh will build for you a house.^d ¹¹And it shall be that when your days are fulfilled to go and sleep with your ancestors,^e then I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹²He himself will build for me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. ¹³I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you. ¹⁴And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.” ’ ”

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Footnotes

aOr “him” (i.e., the nation)
bOr “he”
cOr “his”
dOr “household” (that is, a dynasty)
eOr “fathers”