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he is like the light of the morning when the sun rises,
like a morning without clouds,
like brightness after rain, which produces grass from the earth.”

But my house is not like this with God.[a]
Nevertheless, he has made an everlasting covenant with me,
    completely ordered and secure.
Certainly he will make it spring up for my salvation, to fulfill my desires.[b]
Worthless, wicked men are all like thorns to be thrown away.
No one even picks them up with his hand.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:5 Many translations convert this line to a question: Isn’t my house like this with God? It seems best to leave it as a confession of the unworthiness of David and his dynasty.
  2. 2 Samuel 23:5 The verse is difficult.