Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.

你的儿女必急速归回；毁坏你的，使你荒废的，必都离你出去，

建立你的胜过毁坏你的，使你荒废的必都离你而去。

建立你的胜过毁坏你的，使你荒废的必都离你而去。

你的儿女必很快回来，毁灭和破坏你的必离你而去。

重建你的（按照《马索拉文本》，“重建你的”作“你的儿女们”；现参照《死海古卷》和其他古译本翻译）要急速归回，那些毁坏你的和那些使你荒废的，都必离你而去。

重建你的必快速回来，而那些毁坏你、使你荒废的，都必离你而去。

你的兒女必急速歸回；毀壞你的，使你荒廢的，必都離你出去，

建立你的勝過毀壞你的，使你荒廢的必都離你而去。

建立你的勝過毀壞你的，使你荒廢的必都離你而去。

你的兒女必很快回來，毀滅和破壞你的必離你而去。

重建你的（按照《馬索拉文本》，“重建你的”作“你的兒女們”；現參照《死海古卷》和其他古譯本翻譯）要急速歸回，那些毀壞你的和那些使你荒廢的，都必離你而去。

建造你的比拆毁你的敏捷；那使你荒廢的、必都離開你而去。

重建你的必快速回來，而那些毀壞你、使你荒廢的，都必離你而去。

爾之子女速歸、毀滅爾、荒廢爾者、必遠離爾、

爾之赤子、必速歸爾、爾之外侮、必遠離爾、

爾之諸子將速歸、毀爾使爾荒蕪者、必離爾出、

Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

Your people will hurry back. Those who destroyed you so completely will leave you.

Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will leave you.

Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.

Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.

Your children will commit themselves to you, O Jerusalem, just as a young man commits himself to his bride. Then God will rejoice over you as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

Yet you have forgotten the Lord, your Creator, the one who stretched out the sky like a canopy and laid the foundations of the earth. Will you remain in constant dread of human oppressors? Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies? Where is their fury and anger now? It is gone!

No longer will Israel’s scornful neighbors prick and tear at her like briers and thorns. For then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

This is what the Sovereign Lord, your God and Defender, says:“ See, I have taken the terrible cup from your hands. You will drink no more of my fury.Instead, I will hand that cup to your tormentors, those who said,‘ We will trample you into the dust and walk on your backs.’”

Then God stirred the hearts of the priests and Levites and the leaders of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin to go to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple of the Lord.

Not one of your children is left alive to take your hand and guide you.These two calamities have fallen on you: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize with you? Who is left to comfort you?For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The Lord has poured out his fury; God has rebuked them.

“ Even the most desolate parts of your abandoned land will soon be crowded with your people. Your enemies who enslaved you will be far away.

I am sending Assyria against a godless nation, against a people with whom I am angry. Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.

But now I said to them,“ You know very well what trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire. Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and end this disgrace!”

The king asked,“ Well, how can I help you?” With a prayer to the God of heaven,I replied,“ If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”The king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked,“ How long will you be gone? When will you return?” After I told him how long I would be gone, the king agreed to my request.I also said to the king,“ If it please the king, let me have letters addressed to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River, instructing them to let me travel safely through their territories on my way to Judah.And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king’s forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.When I came to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River, I delivered the king’s letters to them. The king, I should add, had sent along army officers and horsemen to protect me.