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"This was a small thing in Your eyes, God; but You have spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come, and have viewed me according to the standard of a person of high degree, LORD God.

"What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.

"LORD, ^(C1)for Your servant's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

"LORD, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to everything that we have heard with our ears.

"And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for You a name by great and awesome things, by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt?

"^(C1)For You have made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, LORD, became their God.