5. Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?
6. I have never dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up from Egypt to this day, but I have been going about in a tent or a tabernacle.
7. As long as I have wandered about among the Israelites, did I ever say a word to any of the judges whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
8. Now then, speak thus to my servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to become ruler over my people Israel.
9. I was with you wherever you went, and I cut down all your enemies before you. And I will make your name like that of the greatest on earth.
10. I will assign a place for my people Israel and I will plant them in it to dwell there; they will never again be disturbed, nor shall the wicked ever again oppress them, as they did at the beginning,
11. and from the day when I appointed judges over my people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you:
12. when your days have been completed and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom.
13. He it is who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
14. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;
15. but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from Saul who was before you.
16. Your house and your kingdom are firm forever before me; your throne shall be firmly established forever.
17. In accordance with all these words and this whole vision Nathan spoke to David.