Catholic Public Domain Version
"“Go, and say to my servant David: ‘Thus says the Lord: Should you build a house for me as a dwelling place? "
— 2 Samuel 7:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”
“Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? ”
“"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?”
““Go, tell my servant David:‘This is what the LORD has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?”
“Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?”
“Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?”
“Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”
he said to the prophet Nathan, “Do you not see that I live in a house of cedar, and that the ark of God has been placed in the midst of tent skins?”
And Nathan said to the king: “Go, do all that is in your heart. For the Lord is with you.”
But it happened in that night, behold, the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:
“Go, and say to my servant David: ‘Thus says the Lord: Should you build a house for me as a dwelling place?
For I have not lived in a house from the day that I led the sons of Israel away from the land of Egypt, even to this day. Instead, I have walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.
And in all the places that I have crossed through, with all the sons of Israel, did I ever speak a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I instructed to pasture my people Israel, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’
And now, so shall you speak to my servant David: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pastures, from following the sheep, so that you would be the leader over my people Israel.