Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
3 The God of Israel has spoken; the protector of Israel said to me: "The king who rules with justice, who rules in obedience to God,
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The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God,
4 is like the sun shining on a cloudless dawn, the sun that makes the grass sparkle after rain.
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he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.’
5 And that is how God will bless my descendants, because he has made an eternal covenant with me, an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire; that will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about.
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“If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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