¹⁰ Because of your servant David, do not give up your king.

¹² I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

¹³ Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

³⁴ But I will not take the kingdom from him; I will let him be king all the days of his life, because of David my servant, in whom I took delight because he kept my orders and my laws.

⁴ But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

⁵ Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

³⁴ For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

⁴² O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.

⁹ O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

³⁸ But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

³⁹ You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

⁵ And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.