Recitation of the Davidic Covenant

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Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

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I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.

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With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

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An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.

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And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

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And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

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And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

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He proclaimeth me: `Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

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I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

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To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

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And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

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If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

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If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

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I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

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And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

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I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

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Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,

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His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me,

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As the moon it is established--to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.