David Magnifies Yahweh’s Name

¹⁶ Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh and said, “^(A)Who am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far? ¹⁷ And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Yahweh God. ¹⁸ Again what more can David say to You concerning the glory bestowed on Your slave? You know Your slave. ¹⁹ O Yahweh, ^(B)for the sake of Your slave, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. ²⁰ O Yahweh, there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²¹ And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt? ^22 (C)Yet You gave Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God.

²³ “So now, O Yahweh, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your slave and concerning his house ^[a]endure forever, and do as You have spoken, ²⁴ that Your name ^[b]endure and be magnified forever, by saying, ‘Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Your ^[c]servant is established before You.’ ²⁵ For You, O my God, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave that You will build for him a house; therefore Your slave has found courage to pray before You. ²⁶ So now, O Yahweh, You are God, and You have ^[d]promised this good thing to Your slave. ²⁷ So now, You have been pleased to bless the house of Your slave, that it may be forever before You. For You, O Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”