1And it happened when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

2He said to Nathan the prophet: Do you see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?

3And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in your heart: because the Lord is with you.

4But it happened that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:

5Go, and say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Shall you build me a house to dwell in?

16And your house shall be faithful, and your kingdom forever before your face, and your throne shall be firm forever.

2The mercies of the Lord I will sing forever. I will show forth your truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

3For you have said: Mercy shall be built up forever in the heavens: your truth shall be prepared in them.

4I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

5Your offspring will I settle forever. And I will build up your throne to generation and generation.

67And Zachary his father was satisfied with the Holy Ghost; and he prophesied, saying:

68Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; because he has visited and wrought the rescue of his people:

69And has raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant:

70As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the start:

71Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us:

72To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament,

73The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us,

74That being rescued from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear,

75In holiness and righteousness before him, all our days.

76And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:

77To give knowledge of salvation to his people, to the remission of their sins:

78Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high has visited us:

79To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.