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ADONAI, it is for your servant's sake and in accordance with your own heart that you have done all this greatness and revealed all these great things.
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Yet in your view, God, even this was but a small thing; so you have said that your servant's dynasty will continue on into the distant future. You have regarded me, ADONAI, God, as a man of high rank.
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What more can David say to you about the honor you are bestowing on your servant? For you know your servant intimately.
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ADONAI, it is for your servant's sake and in accordance with your own heart that you have done all this greatness and revealed all these great things.
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ADONAI, there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you - everything we have heard confirms that.
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Who can be compared with your people Isra'el? What other nation on earth did God set out to redeem and turn into a people for himself? You made yourself a reputation by doing great and terrifying things, as you drove out the nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.