For your servant’s sake, O Lord, and according to your own heart, you have done all these great deeds, making known all these great things.
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
This was in accordance with the eternal purpose that he has carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord, let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.
And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.
Because of your promise and according to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness so that your servant may know it.
And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? You know your servant.
There is no one like you, O Lord, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.