30. If his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances,
31. If they break or profane My statutes and keep not My commandments,
32. Then will I punish their transgression with the rod [of chastisement], and their iniquity with stripes. [II Sam. 7:14.]
33. Nevertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail [to lie and be false to him].
34. My covenant will I not break or profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
35. Once [for all] have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David:
36. His Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne [shall continue] as the sun before Me. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]
37. It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Rev. 1:5; 3:14.]
38. But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.
39. You have despised and loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40. You have broken down all his hedges and his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41. All who pass along the road spoil and rob him; he has become the scorn and reproach of his neighbors.