15 For we are [a]strangers before thee, and sojourners like all our fathers: our days are like the shadow upon the earth, and there is none [b]abiding.

16 O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy Name, is of thine hand, and all is thine.

17 I know also my God, that thou (A)triest the heart, and hast pleasure in righteousness: I have offered willingly in the uprightness of mine heart all these things: now also have I seen thy people which are found here, to offer unto thee willingly with joy.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15 And therefore have this land but lent to us for a time.
  2. 1 Chronicles 29:15 Hebrew, waiting for them to return.

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