7. Now, therefore, thus shalt thou say unto my slave David, Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, I took thee from the sheepfold, from following the sheep that thou should be ruler over my people Israel;
8. and I have been with thee wherever thou hast walked and have cut off all thy enemies from before thee and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9. Likewise I have ordained a place for my people Israel and have planted him that he dwell by himself and no longer be moved; neither shall the sons of iniquity waste them any more, as before,
10. since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I have humbled all thy enemies and announce unto thee that the Lord will build thee a house.
11. And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled to go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne eternally.
13. I will be his father, and he shall be my son; and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;
14. but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom for ever, and his throne shall be established for evermore.
15. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
16. And David, the king, came and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me here?
17. And yet this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God, for thou hast also spoken of thy slave’s house for a great while to come and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
18. What more can David add asking thee to glorify thy slave? For thou knowest thy slave.
19. O Lord, for thy slave’s sake and according to thy own heart, thou hast done all this greatness, in making known all thy great things.