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Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: "I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

I have found David^(af) my servant;^(ag) with my sacred oil^(ah) I have anointed^(ai) him.

My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him.^(aj)

The enemy will not get the better of him;^(ak) the wicked will not oppress^(al) him.

I will crush his foes before him^(am) and strike down his adversaries.^(an)

My faithful love will be with him,^(ao) and through my name his horn^[f] will be exalted.

I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.^(ap)

He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,^(aq) my God, the Rock^(ar) my Savior.'^(as)

And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,^(at) the most exalted^(au) of the kings^(av) of the earth.

I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.^(aw)

I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.^(ax)

"If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,

if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging;^(ay)

but I will not take my love from him,^(az) nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.^(ba)

Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—

that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;^(bb)

it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky."^(bc)