¹³ `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name;

¹⁴ yea, because, who [am] I, and who [are] my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee [is] the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee;

¹⁵ for sojourners we [are] before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow [are] our days on the land, and there is none abiding.