8 And now this is what you will say to my servant David, ‘This is what Jehovah of armies has said: “I myself took you from the pasture ground from following the flock+ to become a leader+ over my people Israel.

8 And he proceeded to take for himself a fragment of earthenware with which to scrape himself; and he was sitting in among the ashes.+

9 For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position+ and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name,+