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He is like dawn’s first[a] light,
    like bright sun blazing on a cloudless morning,
        glistening on grassland that flourishes after a rain shower.

Is not my dynasty[b] like this with God?
    Has he not made an eternal covenant with me,
        preparing every detail of it?
And he has made it secure,
    including my complete[c] salvation, has he not?
He has been of continual [d] help, has he not,
    even with respect to all of my desires?

But ungodly men[e] are like thorns that are discarded
    because they cannot be safely[f] handled.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:4 The Heb. lacks first
  2. 2 Samuel 23:5 Lit. house
  3. 2 Samuel 23:5 Lit. including all of my
  4. 2 Samuel 23:5 Lit. He has been all
  5. 2 Samuel 23:6 Lit. But Belial
  6. 2 Samuel 23:6 The Heb. lacks safely

he is like the light(A) of morning(B) at sunrise(C)
    on a cloudless morning,
like the brightness after rain(D)
    that brings grass from the earth.’

“If my house were not right with God,
    surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant,(E)
    arranged and secured in every part;
surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation
    and grant me my every desire.
But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,(F)
    which are not gathered with the hand.

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