is like the morning light when the sun rises
on a cloudless morning,
the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”

Is it not true my house is with God?
For he has established a permanent covenant(A) with me,
ordered and secured in every detail.(B)
Will he not bring about
my whole salvation and my every desire?

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he is like the light(A) of morning(B) at sunrise(C)
    on a cloudless morning,
like the brightness after rain(D)
    that brings grass from the earth.’

“If my house were not right with God,
    surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant,(E)
    arranged and secured in every part;
surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation
    and grant me my every desire.

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17 There I will make a horn grow for David;(A)
I have prepared a lamp[a] for my anointed one.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 132:17 Or dominion

17 “Here I will make a horn[a] grow(A) for David
    and set up a lamp(B) for my anointed one.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 132:17 Horn here symbolizes strong one, that is, king.

The Righteous Branch of David

“Look, the days are coming”(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—
“when I will raise up a Righteous Branch for David.(B)
He will reign wisely as king
and administer justice and righteousness in the land.(C)

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“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will raise up for David[a] a righteous Branch,(A)
a King(B) who will reign(C) wisely
    and do what is just and right(D) in the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:5 Or up from David’s line

15 In those days and at that time
I will cause a Righteous Branch(A)
to sprout up for David,
and he will administer justice
and righteousness in the land.

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15 “‘In those days and at that time
    I will make a righteous(A) Branch(B) sprout from David’s line;(C)
    he will do what is just and right in the land.

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“Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your colleagues sitting before you; indeed, these men are a sign that I am about to bring my servant, the Branch.(A)

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“‘Listen, High Priest(A) Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic(B) of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.(C)

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12 You are to tell him: This is what the Lord of Armies says: Here is a man whose name is Branch;(A) he will branch out from his place and build the Lord’s temple.

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12 Tell him this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Here is the man whose name is the Branch,(A) and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the Lord.(B)

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