he (A)dawns on them like the morning light,
    like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,
    like rain[a] that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

“For does not my house stand so with God?
    (B)For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
    ordered in all things and secure.
For will he not cause to prosper
    all my help and my desire?
But worthless men[b] are all like thorns that are thrown away,
    for they cannot be taken with the hand;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:4 Hebrew from rain
  2. 2 Samuel 23:6 Hebrew worthlessness

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