Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, {even} the sure mercies of David.

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. {meat: Heb. prey}

But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took {it} from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

Although my house {be} not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all {things}, and sure: for {this is} all my salvation, and all {my} desire, although he make {it} not to grow.

He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend {is} his name.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. {will...: Heb. I will not make void from him} {to fall: Heb. to lie}

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, {even} the sure mercies of David.

Although my house {be} not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all {things}, and sure: for {this is} all my salvation, and all {my} desire, although he make {it} not to grow.

And said, O LORD God of Israel, {there is} no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and {shewest} mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took {it} from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

But my faithfulness and my mercy {shall be} with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. {broken: Heb. profaned}

Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever. {light: Heb. lamp, or, candle}

Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man {to be} ruler in Israel. {There...: Heb. There shall not be cut off to thee}

Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day. {constant: Heb. strong}

O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

And he made the breastplate {of} cunning work, like the work of the ephod; {of} gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.