^{14 Ref} 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 Ref} and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

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

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