12 When your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.(A) 13 He is the one who will build a house for my name,(B) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.(C) 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son.(D) When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and blows from mortals. 15 But my faithful love will never leave him(E) as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.(F) 16 Your house and kingdom will endure before me[a] forever,(G) and your throne will be established forever.’”(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:16 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read you

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David my servant:

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30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants[a] on his throne.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:30 Other mss add according to the flesh to raise up the Messiah

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