to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the temple which I am about to build [shall be] great and wonderful.

"And [as for] this house, [which] is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

Furthermore King David said to all the assembly: "My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, [is] young and inexperienced; and the work [is] great, because the temple [is] not for man but for the LORD God.

' As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations -- Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them.

"Who [is] like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who [is] like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?

For the LORD [is] great and greatly to be praised; He [is] also to be feared above all gods.

Among the gods [there is] none like You, O Lord; Nor [are there any works] like Your works.

All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name.

For I know that the LORD [is] great, And our Lord [is] above all gods.

Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness [is] unsearchable.

Inasmuch as [there is] none like You, O LORD (You [are] great, and Your name [is] great in might),

which He will manifest in His own time, [He who is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,