David Blesses Yahweh

¹⁰ So David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, “Blessed are You, O Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, from everlasting to everlasting. ^11 (A)Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the ^[a]power and the glory and the ^[b]victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. ^12 (B)Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and ^(C)in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone. ¹³ So now, our God, we are thanking You and praising Your glorious name.

¹⁴ “But who am I and who are my people that we should ^[c]be able to offer as willingly as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You. ¹⁵ For ^(D)we are sojourners before You, and foreign residents, like all our fathers were; ^(E)our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. ¹⁶ O Yahweh our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name, it is from Your hand, and all is Yours. ¹⁷ And I know, O my God, that ^(F)You try the heart and ^(G)delight in uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things. So now with gladness I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You. ¹⁸ O Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the ^[d]intentions of the heart of Your people, and prepare their heart to You; ¹⁹ and ^(H)give to my son Solomon a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and ^(I)to build the ^[e]temple, for which I have made preparation.”

²⁰ Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God.” And ^(J)all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and ^(K)bowed low and prostrated themselves to Yahweh and to the king.