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is like the light of morning when the sun comes up,
a morning in which there are no clouds.
He is like the brightness after rain
that produces grass from the earth.
My dynasty is approved by God,[a]
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition.[b]
But evil people are like thorns—
all of them are tossed away,
for they cannot be held in the hand.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:5 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
  2. 2 Samuel 23:5 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

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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