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‘I have set a youth above a warrior :
 I have exalted a young man out of the people.
‘I have found my servant David :
 and anointed him with my holy oil.
‘My hand shall uphold him :
 and my arm shall strengthen him.
‘No enemy shall deceive him :
 no evil man shall hurt him.
‘I will crush his adversaries before him :
 and strike down those that hate him.
‘My faithfulness and loving-kindness shall be with him :
 and through my name his head shall be lifted high.
‘I will set the hand of his dominion upon the Western Sea :
 and his right hand shall stretch to the streams of Mesopotamia.
‘He will call to me “You are my Father :
 my God, and the Rock of my salvation.”
‘I will make him my first-born son :
 and highest among the kings of the earth.
‘I will ever maintain my loving-kindness toward him :
 and my covenant with him shall stand firm.
‘I will establish his line for ever :
 and his throne like the days of heaven.
‘If his children forsake my law :
 and will not walk in my judgements;
‘If they profane my statutes :
 and do not keep my commandments,
‘Then I will punish their rebellion with the rod :
 and their iniquity with blows.
‘But I will not cause my loving-kindness to cease from him :
 nor will I betray my faithfulness.
‘I will not profane my covenant :
 or alter what has passed from my lips.
‘Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness :
 I will not prove false to David.
‘His posterity shall endure for ever :
 and his throne be as the sun before me;