Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

New American Standard Bible

“I have made a covenant with My chosen;
I have sworn to David My servant,

King James Version

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise to David, my servant.

A Conservative Version

I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to David my servant:

American Standard Version

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:

Amplified


[God has said] “I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn to David My servant,

Bible in Basic English

I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;

Darby Translation

I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto David my servant:

Julia Smith Translation

I cut out a covenant to my chosen, I sware to David my servant,

King James 2000

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

Lexham Expanded Bible

"I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore [an oath] to David my servant:

Modern King James verseion

I have cut a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:

NET Bible

The Lord said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:

New Heart English Bible

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

The Emphasized Bible

I have solemnised a covenant, for my chosen one, I have sworn unto David my servant:

Webster

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,

World English Bible

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

References

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Context Readings

Perplexity About God's Promises

2 For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.' 3 I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant: 4 'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

Cross References

Psalm 132:11

Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee.

2 Samuel 7:10-16

and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place, and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it any more, as in the beginning,

1 Kings 8:16

From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

Jeremiah 33:20-21

'Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,

2 Samuel 3:9

thus doth God to Abner, and thus He doth add to him, surely as Jehovah hath sworn to David -- surely so I do to him:

2 Samuel 23:5

For -- not so is my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused it to spring up.

Psalm 78:70

And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,

Psalm 89:19

Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

Psalm 89:28

To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

Psalm 89:34-35

I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

Psalm 89:39

Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

Isaiah 42:1

Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

Isaiah 55:3

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.

Jeremiah 30:9

And they have served Jehovah their God, And David their king whom I raise up to them.

Ezekiel 34:23-24

And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,

Hosea 3:5

Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.

Matthew 3:17

and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, 'This is My Son -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

Matthew 12:18-21

'Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him, and judgment to the nations he shall declare,

Luke 1:32-33

he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

Acts 2:30

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

Hebrews 7:21

and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, 'The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

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