<p class="poetry">I summon<n id="1" /> my servant, but he does not respond,p> <p class="poetry">even though I implore<n id="2" /> him with my own mouth.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;At that time<n id="1" /> I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So now, say this to my servant David: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd<n id="1" /> to make you leader of my people Israel.

Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu<n id="1" /> said to the servants of Baal, &#8220;Make sure there are no servants of the <sc>Lordsc> here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So now, say this to my servant David: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies<n id="1" /> says: &#8220;I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd<n id="2" /> to make you a leader of my people Israel.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power<n id="1" /> over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it &#8211; they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles<n id="1" /> to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.