¹⁷ This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

¹⁹ This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

⁶ yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

¹⁹ Then you spoke in vision to your saints, And said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

²⁰ I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

²¹ With whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

²² No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

²³ I will beat down his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

²⁴ But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

²⁵ I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶ He will call to me, 'You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation!'

²⁷ I will also appoint him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸ I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

²⁹ I will also make his seed endure forever, And his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances;

³¹ If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments;

³² Then I will punish their sin with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.

³³ But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

³⁴ I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what my lips have uttered.

³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

³⁶ His seed will endure forever, His throne like the sun before me.

³⁷ It will be established forever like the moon, The faithful witness in the sky." Selah.

⁷⁰ He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹ From following the ewes that have their young, He brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, And Israel, his inheritance.

⁷² So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

¹¹ It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

¹² He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

¹³ I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

¹⁴ but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.

¹⁵ According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

⁷ Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:

⁸ and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

¹⁸ This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

¹³ I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.

⁸ I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.