Your house and your kingdom will stand before me<n id="1" /> permanently; your dynasty<n id="2" /> will be permanent.&#8217;&#8221;

He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">He gives his chosen king magnificent victories;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he is faithful to his chosen ruler,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to David and to his descendants forever!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When David later heard about this, he said, &#8220;I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the <sc>Lordsc> of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

You made Israel your very own people for all time.<n id="1" /> You, O <sc>Lordsc>, became their God.

So now, O <sc>Lordsc> God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality.<n id="1" /> Do as you promised,<n id="2" />

so you may gain lasting fame,<n id="1" /> as people say,<n id="2" /> &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> of hosts is God over Israel!&#8217; The dynasty<n id="3" /> of your servant David will be established before you,

So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!&#8217;

<p class="poetry">My dynasty is approved by God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,p> <p class="poetry">arranged in all its particulars and secured.p> <p class="poetry">He always delivers me,p> <p class="poetry">and brings all I desire to fruition.<n id="2" />p>