¹³ and he putteth in Edom garrisons, and all the Edomites are servants to David; and Jehovah saveth David whithersoever he hath gone.

⁶ and David putteth `garrisons' in Aram of Damascus, and the Aramaeans are to David for servants, bearing a present, and Jehovah giveth salvation to David whithersoever he hath gone.

³² In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

¹⁰ Who is giving deliverance to kings, Who is freeing David His servant from the sword of evil.

⁷ Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul.

⁴⁸ My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.

⁴⁹ Therefore I confess Thee among nations, O Jehovah, And to Thy name I sing praise,

⁵⁰ Magnifying the salvation of His king, And doing kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed -- unto the age!

¹⁴ and David `is' then in a fortress, and the station of the Philistines `is' then in Beth-Lehem,

¹⁴ I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

¹⁵ and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

¹⁶ and stedfast `is' thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

¹⁷ According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan unto David.

¹ And the day cometh that Jonathan son of Saul saith unto the young man bearing his weapons, `Come, and we pass over unto the station of the Philistines, which `is' on the other side of this;' and to his father he hath not declared `it'.

³ And Jonathan smiteth the garrison of the Philistines which `is' in Geba, and the Philistines hear, and Saul hath blown with a trumpet through all the land, saying, `Let the Hebrews hear.'

⁵ `Afterwards thou dost come unto the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines `is', and it cometh to pass, at thy coming in thither to the city, that thou hast met a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them psaltery, and tabret, and pipe, and harp, and they are prophesying;

¹⁸ And Edom hath been a possession, And Seir hath been a possession, `for' its enemies, And Israel is doing valiantly;

⁴⁰ and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

³⁷ And Isaac answereth and saith to Esau, `Lo, a mighty one have I set him over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants, and `with' corn and wine have I sustained him; and for thee now, what shall I do, my son?'

²⁹ peoples serve thee, and nations bow themselves to thee, be thou mighty over thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother bow themselves to thee; those who curse thee `are' cursed, and those who bless thee `are' blessed.'

²³ And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations `are' in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the `one' people than the `other' people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'