⁹ I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

¹³ I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

⁴ That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

²⁵ Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

⁴ As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

⁷ He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?

⁷⁵ In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.