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21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 22 (A)Therefore you are great, O Lord God. (B)For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 (C)And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name (D)and doing for them[a] great and awesome things by driving out[b] before your people, whom (E)you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you
  2. 2 Samuel 7:23 Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew for your land

21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

22 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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