"Now,O LORD,You are God,and have promisedthisgoodthingto Your servant.
"For You, O my God,have revealedto Your servantthat You will buildfor him a house;thereforeYour servanthas found[courage] to praybeforeYou.
"And nowit has pleasedYou to blessthe houseof Your servant,that it may continueforeverbeforeYou; for You, O LORD,have blessed,and it is blessedforever."
in the hopeof eternallife,whichGod,who cannot lie,promisedlong agesago,
sothat by twounchangeablethingsin whichit is impossiblefor Godto lie,we who have taken refugewould havestrongencouragementto take holdof the hopeset beforeus.
