--2 Samuel-- Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow. (23:5) --Psalms-- I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him (89:20) With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him (89:21) The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him (89:22) And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him (89:23) But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted (89:24) I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers (89:25) He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation (89:26) Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth (89:27) My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him (89:28) His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven (89:29) If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments (89:30) If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments (89:31) Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes (89:32) Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail (89:33) My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips (89:34) Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David (89:35) His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me (89:36) It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah (89:37) --Jeremiah-- [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. (33:21) |