David’s prayer

10 Then, while all the people there were listening, David prayed, saying,

“We praise you, Yahweh,

the God whom our ancestor Jacob worshiped.

We will praise you forever!

11 You alone are great and powerful;

only you are truly glorious and majestic and wonderful.

And that is true because everything in heaven and on the earth is yours.

You are the king of all the people in this world;

you are the ruler of everything.

12 Because you are very powerful [DOU],

you are able to cause anyone to be great and strong.

13 So now, our God, we thank you,

and we praise you [MTY] for being very great.

14 But my people and I are not really able to give anything to you,

because everything that we have comes from you,

and what we have given to you are only the things that we have received from you [MTY].

15 In this land we are like [MET] foreigners and strangers, like our ancestors were.

Our time here on this earth is like [SIM] a shadow that disappears quickly;

we know that there is nothing that can enable us to escape dying.

16 Yahweh our God, we have gathered all these things to use in building your [MTY] temple,

but all of it really belongs to you, and you have given it to us [MTY].

17 My God, I know that you test us people,

and you are pleased if you find out that we do what is right.

All these things I have given to you because I wanted to.

And now I have seen that your people have also joyfully and generously given things to you.

18 Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshiped,

I desire/hope that your people will continue to desire to do things like this forever,

and that they will always be loyal to you.

19 And now, please enable my son Solomon to faithfully and sincerely [DOU] obey your commands and laws and decrees [DOU]

and to do everything that is needed to build this beautiful building

for which I have provided all these things.”

20 Then David said to all the people who were gathered there, “Praise Yahweh our God!” So they all praised Yahweh the God whom their ancestors ◄also worshiped/belonged to►. They prostrated themselves on the ground in front of Yahweh and in front of the king.