Bible in Basic English
"Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it."
— 2 Samuel 7:21, Bible in Basic English
“For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.”
“For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.”
“For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant.”
Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?
And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!
What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.
Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.
Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.
And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?
But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.