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What's left for David to say to this - to your honoring your servant, even though you know me, just as I am?
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O God, out of the goodness of your heart, you've taken your servant to do this great thing and put your great work on display.
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There's none like you, God, no God but you, nothing to compare with what we've heard with our own ears.
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And who is like your people, like Israel, a nation unique on earth, whom God set out to redeem as his own people (and became most famous for it), performing great and fearsome acts, throwing out nations and their gods left and right as you saved your people from Egypt?
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You established for yourself a people - your very own Israel! - your people forever. And you, God, became their God.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.