knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies. Death is no longer master [over] Him.

Give heed with your ears, and follow My ways; hearken to Me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to Me a son. And when he happens to transgress, then will I chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men.

And his house shall be made sure, and his kingdom forever before Me, and his throne shall be established forever.

For my house [is] not so with the Mighty One; for He has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire [is], that the wicked should not flourish.

For You have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; Your truth shall be established in the heavens.

I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause.

Then You spoke in a vision to Your children, and said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of My people.

For My hand shall support him; and My arm shall strengthen him.

And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him.

And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

And I will make him [My] firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

And I will establish his seed forever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

if they should profane My ordinances, and not keep My commandments;

But My mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong My truth.

Once have I sworn by My holiness, that I will not lie to David.

and as the moon [that is] established forever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause.

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And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, [even] My servant David, and he shall be their shepherd;

and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.

And My servant David [shall be] a prince in the midst of them. There shall be one shepherd of [them] all; for they shall walk in My ordinances, and keep My judgments, and do them.

And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to My servant Jacob, where their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it; and David My servant [shall be their] prince forever.

And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness in the latter days.

In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days:

And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the weak one among them in that day shall be as David, and the house of David as the house of God, as the Angel of the Lord before them.