My mercy I will keep for him forever, and My covenant shall be established with him.

My covenant I will not break, nor alter what has gone forth out of My lips.

You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have dishonored his crown on the ground.

Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, without being disturbed; nor shall the sons of unrighteousness afflict them anymore, as before,

When your days are fulfilled and you have rested with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the strokes of the sons of men.

And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.

Although my house is not so with the Mighty God, yet He has made with me a perpetual covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For all my salvation and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, for My name to be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel.

Extend your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

Thus says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,

then also may My covenant with David My servant be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

I will raise up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them; My servant David. He shall feed them and be their Shepherd.

And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and My Servant David a prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king. And they shall fear Jehovah and His goodness in the latter days.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David.

And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and said: I have placed help upon a mighty one; I have exalted a chosen one out of the people.

He also chose David His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.

And behold a voice out of heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will declare judgment to the Gentiles.

A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench, till He sends forth judgment to victory;

Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David:

Jehovah has sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it: I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body.

May God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not do for David as Jehovah has sworn to him;

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne;

(for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: The Lord has sworn and will not repent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek),