God’s Promise to David^(A)

7 After the king was settled in his palace^(B) and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies^(C) around him,^(D)

⁹ “But they forgot^(A) the Lord their God; so he sold them^(B) into the hand of Sisera,^(C) the commander of the army of Hazor,^(D) and into the hands of the Philistines^(E) and the king of Moab,^(F) who fought against them. ¹⁰ They cried^(G) out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken^(H) the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths.^(I) But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ ¹¹ Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal,^[a](J) Barak,^[b](K) Jephthah^(L) and Samuel,^[c](M) and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

¹⁴ In his anger^(A) against Israel the Lord gave them into the hands^(B) of raiders who plundered^(C) them. He sold them^(D) into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.^{(E) 15} Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the Lord was against them^(F) to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.^(G)

¹⁶ Then the Lord raised up judges,^[a](H) who saved^(I) them out of the hands of these raiders.

³⁸ If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right^(A) in my eyes by obeying my decrees^(B) and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty^(C) as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.

Psalm 127

A song of ascents. Of Solomon.