⁸ ‘So now this is what you are to say to my servant David: “This is what the Lord of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.^{(A) 9} I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you. I will make a great name^(B) for you like that of the greatest on the earth.^{(C) 10} I will designate a place^(D) for my people Israel and plant them,^(E) so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not continue to oppress them as they have done ¹¹ ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel.^(F) I will give you rest from all your enemies.

‘ “The Lord declares to you: The Lord himself will make a house for you. ¹² When your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.^{(G) 13} He is the one who will build a house for my name,^(H) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.^{(I) 14} I will be his father, and he will be my son.^(J) When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and blows from mortals. ¹⁵ But my faithful love will never leave him^(K) as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.^{(L) 16} Your house and kingdom will endure before me^[a] for ever,^(M) and your throne will be established for ever.” ’^(N)

²⁴ My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them.^(A) They will follow my ordinances, and keep my statutes and obey them.^(B)

²⁵ ‘ “They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob,^(C) where your ancestors lived. They will live in it for ever with their children and grandchildren, and my servant David will be their prince for ever.^{(D) 26} I will make a covenant of peace with them;^(E) it will be a permanent covenant^(F) with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them for ever. ²⁷ My dwelling place will be with them;^(G) I will be their God, and they will be my people.^{(H) 28} When my sanctuary is among them for ever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.” ’^(I)

²¹ tell them, “This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.^(A) I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land. ²² I will make them one nation in the land,^(B) on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them.^(C) They will no longer be two nations and will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. ²³ They will not defile themselves any more with their idols,^(D) their abhorrent things, and all their transgressions.^(E) I will save them from all their apostasies by which^[a] they sinned,^(F) and I will cleanse them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.^{(G) 24} My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them.^(H) They will follow my ordinances, and keep my statutes and obey them.^(I)

²⁵ ‘ “They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob,^(J) where your ancestors lived. They will live in it for ever with their children and grandchildren, and my servant David will be their prince for ever.^{(K) 26} I will make a covenant of peace with them;^(L) it will be a permanent covenant^(M) with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them for ever. ²⁷ My dwelling place will be with them;^(N) I will be their God, and they will be my people.^{(O) 28} When my sanctuary is among them for ever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.” ’^(P)