⁸ “So now, say this to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd^[a] to make you leader of my people Israel.

⁹ I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated^[a] all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.^[b]