For You, O my God, have told Your servant that You will build him a house. Therefore Your servant has found in his heart to pray before You.
Let it even be established, so that Your name may be magnified forever, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is the God of Israel, a God to Israel. And let the house of David Your servant be established before You.
And now, Jehovah, You are God, and have promised this goodness to Your servant.
Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear,
So says the Lord Jehovah: yet this, I will be sought by the house of Israel to act for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.
And Jehovah had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,