2 Samuel 7

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And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

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He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

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I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

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But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

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And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

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Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

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And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

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And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

2 Samuel 22

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And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

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And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

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The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

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I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

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When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

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The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

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In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

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And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

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And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

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The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

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And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

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And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

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They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

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He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

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For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

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I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

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Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

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And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

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For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

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As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

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For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

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God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

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He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

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He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.