2 Samuel 7:28
New International Version
Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.

New Living Translation
For you are God, O Sovereign LORD. Your words are truth, and you have promised these good things to your servant.

English Standard Version
And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Berean Standard Bible
And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

King James Bible
And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

New King James Version
“And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

New American Standard Bible
Now then, Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth; and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.

NASB 1995
“Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.

NASB 1977
“And now, O Lord GOD, Thou art God, and Thy words are truth, and Thou hast promised this good thing to Thy servant.

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, O Lord Yahweh, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your slave.

Amplified Bible
And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.

Christian Standard Bible
Lord GOD, you are God; your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lord GOD, You are God; Your words are true, and You have promised this grace to Your servant.

American Standard Version
And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy words are truth, and thou hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And now, LORD JEHOVAH God, you are God, and your words shall be true that you have spoken this goodness concerning your Servant

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now, O Lord my Lord, thou art God; and thy words will be true, and thou hast spoken these good things concerning thy servant.

Contemporary English Version
LORD All-Powerful, you are God. You have promised me some very good things, and you can be trusted to do what you promise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true: for thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.

English Revised Version
And now, O Lord GOD, thou art God, and thy words are truth, and thou hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Almighty LORD, you are God, and your words are trustworthy. You promised me this good thing.

Good News Translation
"And now, Sovereign LORD, you are God; you always keep your promises, and you have made this wonderful promise to me.

International Standard Version
"Now therefore, Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have spoken to your servant these good things.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And now, O Lord GOD, Thou alone art God, and Thy words are truth, and Thou hast promised this good thing unto Thy servant;

Literal Standard Version
And now, Lord YHWH, You [are] God Himself, and Your words are truth, and You speak this goodness to Your servant,

Majority Standard Bible
And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

New American Bible
Since you, Lord GOD, are truly God and your words are truth and you have made this generous promise to your servant,

NET Bible
Now, O sovereign LORD, you are the true God! May your words prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant!

New Revised Standard Version
And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant;

New Heart English Bible
"Now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this goodness to thy servant:

World English Bible
“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou art God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
David's Prayer of Thanksgiving
27For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You. 28And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant. 29Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”…

Cross References
John 17:17
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

Exodus 34:6
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,


Treasury of Scripture

And now, O Lord GOD, you are that God, and your words be true, and you have promised this goodness to your servant:

thy words

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

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Verse 28. - And now, O Lord God, thou art that God. The pronoun rendered "that" is really a personal pronoun used as the copula, which the Authorized Version inserts in italics. As this grammatical usage, which is common to all the Semitic languages, was not understood at the time when our version was made, we find all the parts of the verb "to be" constantly printed in italics, as though absent, while really they are expressed in the Oriental way. This has the advantage, however, of reminding the reader that wherever the verb "to be" is printed in Roman characters it has a much stronger meaning than the mere union of subject and predicate. Thus in Genesis 1:2 the first "was," in Roman type, means "existed," or possibly "became;" the second "was," in italics, is simply the copula. Here the correct translation is, And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art the God; i.e. the one real, true God.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And now,
וְעַתָּ֣ה ׀ (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

O Lord
אֲדֹנָ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD,
יְהוִ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

You
אַתָּה־ (’at·tāh-)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are
הוּא֙ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

God!
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Your words
וּדְבָרֶ֖יךָ (ū·ḏə·ḇā·re·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

are
יִהְי֣וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

true,
אֱמֶ֑ת (’ĕ·meṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness

and You have promised
וַתְּדַבֵּר֙ (wat·tə·ḏab·bêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

this
הַזֹּֽאת׃ (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

goodness
הַטּוֹבָ֖ה (haṭ·ṭō·w·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

to
אֶֽל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Your servant.
עַבְדְּךָ֔ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant


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