I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

He proclaimeth me: 'Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.

For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'

My son

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

and a voice came out of the cloud saying, 'This is My Son -- the Beloved; hear ye him;'

the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;

I will not

and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

'Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

As i took

he doth build for Me a house, and I have established his throne unto the age;

and he inquired not at Jehovah, and He putteth him to death, and turneth round the kingdom to David son of Jesse.

And Samuel saith unto him, 'Jehovah hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee to-day, and given it to thy neighbour who is better than thou;

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and stedfast is thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have established the good word That I spake unto the house of Israel, And concerning the house of Judah.