Recitation of the Davidic Covenant

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Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones, and said, “I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

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I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

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with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

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No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

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I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

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But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

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I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

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He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

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I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

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I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

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If his children forsake my Torah, and don’t walk in my ordinances;

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if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

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then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

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I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

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Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

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His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

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It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.