But I will not withdraw my support from him as I did from Saul, whom I removed so that you could be king.

You will always have descendants, and I will make your kingdom last forever. Your dynasty will never end.' "

The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end; I will keep forever my promise of peace." So says the LORD who loves you.

"Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

And we are here to bring the Good News to you: what God promised our ancestors he would do, he has now done for us, who are their descendants, by raising Jesus to life. As it is written in the second Psalm, 'You are my Son; today I have become your Father.'

And this is what God said about raising him from death, never to rot away in the grave: 'I will give you the sacred and sure blessings that I promised to David.'

I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.

He provides food for those who honor him; he never forgets his covenant.

He set his people free and made an eternal covenant with them. Holy and mighty is he!

And that is how God will bless my descendants, because he has made an eternal covenant with me, an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire; that will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about.

"I have made a covenant with the day and with the night, so that they always come at their proper times; and that covenant can never be broken.

In the same way I have made a covenant with my servant David that he would always have a descendant to be king, and I have made a covenant with the priests from the tribe of Levi that they would always serve me; and those covenants can never be broken.