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12 When your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors,[a] I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the human beings.[b] 15 But my loyal love shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:12 Or “fathers”
  2. 2 Samuel 7:14 Literally “children of men”

“But as for me, I have set my king
on Zion, my holy mountain.”

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27 I will also make him the firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.

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Yahweh Gives Authority to His Messiah

Of David. A psalm.[a]

110 A declaration of Yahweh to my lord,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies your footstool.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 110:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm

For a child has been born for us;
    a son has been given to us.
And the dominion will be on his shoulder,
    and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
        Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
His dominion will grow continually,
    and to peace there will be no end[a]
on[b] the throne of David and over[c] his kingdom,
    to establish it[d] and sustain it
with justice and righteousness
    now and forever.
The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:7 Literally “There is no end to the increase of the dominion and to peace”
  2. Isaiah 9:7 Or “for”
  3. Isaiah 9:7 Or “for”
  4. Isaiah 9:7 That is, the kingdom

14 And to him was given dominion and glory and kingship that[a] all the peoples, the nations, and languages would serve him; his dominion is a dominion without end[b] that will not cease, and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 7:14 Aramaic “and”
  2. Daniel 7:14 Literally “of eternity”