^{4 Ref} Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

^{5 Ref} For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

^{6 Ref} In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?

^{7 Ref} So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

^{8 Ref} And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

^{9 Ref} And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,

^{10 Ref} From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.