⁵⁵ As he gave his word to our fathers.

¹⁹ And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

⁶ O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

⁷ He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.

⁸ He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

⁹ The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

¹⁰ And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

¹¹ The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.

¹² If your children keep my word, and the teachings which I will give them, their children will be rulers of your kingdom for ever.

¹³ For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

¹⁴ This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

¹⁵ My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.

¹⁶ Her priests will be clothed with salvation; and her saints will give cries of joy.

¹⁷ There I will make the horn of David fertile: I have made ready a light for my king.

²⁸ As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

²⁹ Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

³ To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

⁴ I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

¹⁶ Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.