27. I will make him my firstborn son,the mightiest king on earth.
28. I will love him and be kind to him forever;my covenant with him will never end.
29. I will preserve an heir for him;his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.
30. But if his descendants forsake my instructionsand fail to obey my regulations,
31. if they do not obey my decreesand fail to keep my commands,
32. then I will punish their sin with the rod,and their disobedience with beating.
33. But I will never stop loving himnor fail to keep my promise to him.
34. No, I will not break my covenant;I will not take back a single word I said.
35. I have sworn an oath to David,and in my holiness I cannot lie:
36. His dynasty will go on forever;his kingdom will endure as the sun.
37. It will be as eternal as the moon,my faithful witness in the sky!”Interlude
38. But now you have rejected him and cast him off.You are angry with your anointed king.
39. You have renounced your covenant with him;you have thrown his crown in the dust.
40. You have broken down the walls protecting himand ruined every fort defending him.
41. Everyone who comes along has robbed him,and he has become a joke to his neighbors.
42. You have strengthened his enemiesand made them all rejoice.
43. You have made his sword uselessand refused to help him in battle.
44. You have ended his splendorand overturned his throne.
45. You have made him old before his timeand publicly disgraced him.Interlude