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.
18. Then King David went in and sat in the Lord’s presence and said, “Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house, that you should have brought me so far?
19. And yet even this is too little in your sight, Lord God! For you have made a promise regarding your servant’s house reaching into the future, and giving guidance to the people, Lord God!
20. What more can David say to you? You know your servant, Lord God!
21. For your servant’s sake and as you have had at heart, you have brought about this whole magnificent disclosure to your servant.
22. Therefore, great are you, Lord God! There is no one like you, no God but you, as we have always heard.