简体中文
1 大卫住在自己宫中,对先知拿单说,看哪,我住在香柏木的宫中,耶和华的约柜反在幔子里。
2 拿单对大卫说,你可以照你的心意而行,因为神与你同在。
3 当夜,神的话临到拿单,说,
4 你去告诉我仆人大卫,说耶和华如此说,你不可建造殿宇给我居住。
5 自从我领以色列人出埃及,直到今日,我未曾住过殿宇,乃从这会幕到那会幕,从这帐幕到那帐幕。
6 凡我同以色列人所走的地方,我何曾向以色列的一个士师,就是我吩咐牧养我民的说,你为何不给我建造香柏木的殿宇呢?
7 现在你要告诉我仆人大卫,说万军之耶和华如此说,我从羊圈中将你召来,叫你不再跟从羊群,立你作我民以色列的君。
8 你无论往哪里去,我常与你同在,剪除你的一切仇敌。我必使你得大名,好像世上大大有名的人一样。
9 我必为我民以色列选定一个地方,栽培他们,使他们住自己的地方,不再迁移。凶恶之子也不像从前扰害他们,
10 并不像我命士师治理我民以色列的时候一样。我必治服你的一切仇敌,并且我耶和华应许你,必为你建立家室。
11 你寿数满足归你列祖的时候,我必使你的后裔接续你的位,我也必坚定他的国。
12 他必为我建造殿宇。我必坚定他的国位直到永远。
13 我要作他的父,他要作我的子。并不使我的慈爱离开他,像离开在你以前的扫罗一样。
14 我却要将他永远坚立在我家里和我国里。他的国位也必坚定,直到永远。
15 拿单就按这一切话,照这默示告诉大卫。
16 于是大卫王进去,坐在耶和华面前,说,耶和华神啊,我是谁?我的家算什么,你竟使我到这地步呢?
17 神啊,这在你眼中还看为小,又应许你仆人的家至于久远。耶和华神啊,你看顾我好像看顾高贵的人。
18 你加于仆人的尊荣,我还有何言可说呢?因为你知道你的仆人。
19 耶和华啊,你行了这大事,并且显明出来,是因你仆人的缘故,也是照你的心意。
20 耶和华啊,照我们耳中听见,没有可比你的,除你以外再无神。
21 世上有何民能比你的民以色列呢?你神从埃及救赎他们作自己的子民,又在你赎出来的民面前行大而可畏的事,驱逐列邦人,显出你的大名。
22 你使以色列人作你的子民,直到永远。你耶和华也作他们的神。
23 耶和华啊,你所应许仆人和仆人家的话,求你坚定,直到永远,照你所说的而行。
24 愿你的名永远坚立,被尊为大,说,万军之耶和华是以色列的神,是治理以色列的神。这样,你仆人大卫的家必在你面前坚立。
25 我的神啊,因你启示仆人说,我必为你建立家室,所以仆人大胆在你面前祈祷。
26 耶和华啊,惟有你是神,你也应许将这福气赐给仆人。
27 现在你喜悦赐福与仆人的家,可以永存在你面前。耶和华啊,你已经赐福,还要赐福到永远。
King James Version
Chapter 17
17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
17:2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
17:3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
17:5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
17:6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
17:7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
17:8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
17:9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
17:10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
17:11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
17:12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
17:14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
17:16 And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
17:17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
17:18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
17:19 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
17:20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
17:21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
17:22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
17:23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
17:24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
17:25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
17:26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
LYDIA ENOCH HOMESCHOOL UNION