Catholic Public Domain Version
"“Go, and speak to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build a house for me as a dwelling place. "
— 1 Chronicles 17:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:”
“Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in: ”
“"Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in;”
““Go, tell my servant David:‘This is what the LORD says:“You must not build me a house in which to live.”
“Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.”
“Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:”
“Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:”
Now when David was living in his house, he said to the prophet Nathan: “Behold, I live in a house of cedar. But the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent skins.”
And Nathan said to David: “Do all that is in your heart. For God is with you.”
And yet, that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
“Go, and speak to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build a house for me as a dwelling place.
For I have not stayed in a house from the time when I led out Israel, even to this day. Instead, I have been continually changing places, in a tabernacle and tent,
dwelling with all of Israel. When did I ever speak to any one at all, among the judges of Israel whom I placed in charge so that they might pasture my people, saying: ‘Why have you not built a house of cedar for me?’
And so, now you shall say this to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you when you were following the flock in the pastures, so that you would be the leader of my people Israel.