12. “When your days are filled and you rest with your fathers, I shall raise up your seed after you, who comes from your inward parts, and shall establish his reign.
13. “He does build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his reign forever.
14. “I am to be his Father, and he is My son. If he does perversely, I shall reprove him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
15. “But My kindness does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Sha’ul, whom I removed from before you.
16. “And your house and your reign are to be steadfast forever before you – your throne is established forever.” ’ ”
17. According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to Dawiḏ.
18. And Sovereign Dawiḏ went in and sat before יהוה and he said, “Who am I, O Master יהוה? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
19. “And yet this was a small matter in Your eyes, O Master יהוה. And You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the teaching of man, O Master יהוה?
20. “And what more does Dawiḏ say to You? For You, Master יהוה, know Your servant.
21. “Because of Your word, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, to make it known to Your servant.
22. “You are great indeed, O Master יהוה. For there is none like You, and there is no Elohim but You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23. “And who is like Your people, like Yisra’ĕl, the one nation on the earth whom Elohim went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a Name, and to do for You greatness, and awesome deeds for Your land before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Mitsrayim, from the nations and their mighty ones?