28 Sovereign Lord, you are God! Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.

Other Translations of 2 Samuel 7:28

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

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

The Message

28 "And now, Master God, being the God you are, speaking sure words as you do, and having just said this wonderful thing to me,

New King James Version

28 And now, O Lord God, You are God, and Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

New Living Translation

28 For you are God, O Sovereign Lord . Your words are truth, and you have promised these good things to your servant.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:28

Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:18-29

(Read 2 Samuel 7:18-29)

David's prayer is full of the breathings of devout affection toward God. He had low thoughts of his own merits. All we have, must be looked upon as Divine gifts. He speaks very highly and honourably of the Lord's favours to him. Considering what the character and condition of man is, we may be amazed that God should deal with him as he does. The promise of Christ includes all; if the Lord God be ours, what more can we ask, or think of? Ephesians 3:20. He knows us better than we know ourselves; therefore let us be satisfied with what he has done for us. What can we say more for ourselves in our prayers, than God has said for us in his promises? David ascribes all to the free grace of God. Both the great things He had done for him, and the great things He had made known to him. All was for his word's sake, that is, for the sake of Christ the eternal Word. Many, when they go to pray, have their hearts to seek, but David's heart was found, that is, it was fixed; gathered in from its wanderings, entirely engaged to the duty, and employed in it. That prayer which is from the tongue only, will not please God; it must be found in the heart; that must be lifted up and poured out before God. He builds his faith, and hopes to speed, upon the sureness of God's promise. David prays for the performance of the promise. With God, saying and doing are not two things, as they often are with men; God will do as he hath said. The promises of God are not made to us by name, as to David, but they belong to all who believe in Jesus Christ, and plead them in his name.