“ Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

外邦人必建筑你的城墙；他们的王必服侍你。我曾发怒击打你，现今却施恩怜恤你。

外邦人要建造你的城墙，他们的君王必服事你。我曾发怒击打你，如今却施恩怜悯你。

外邦人要建造你的城墙，他们的君王必服事你。我曾发怒击打你，如今却施恩怜悯你。

“外族人要为你建造城墙，他们的君王要服侍你。我曾发怒击打你，如今我要施恩怜悯你。

外族人要重建你的城墙，他们的君王都必服事你。虽然我曾经在烈怒中击打了你，现在我却在恩典中怜悯你。

外邦人必重建你的城墙，他们的君王都必事奉你。我曾经在震怒中击打了你，而如今我在恩典中怜悯了你。

外邦人必建築你的城牆；他們的王必服事你。我曾發怒擊打你，現今卻施恩憐恤你。

外邦人要建造你的城牆，他們的君王必服事你。我曾發怒擊打你，如今卻施恩憐憫你。

外邦人要建造你的城牆，他們的君王必服事你。我曾發怒擊打你，如今卻施恩憐憫你。

「外族人要為你建造城牆，他們的君王要服侍你。我曾發怒擊打你，如今我要施恩憐憫你。

外族人要重建你的城牆，他們的君王都必服事你。雖然我曾經在烈怒中擊打了你，現在我卻在恩典中憐憫你。

外族人必修造你的城牆，他們的王必服事你；因為我震怒時雖曾擊打了你，如今我卻以我的恩悅憐憫你。

外邦人必重建你的城牆，他們的君王都必事奉你。我曾經在震怒中擊打了你，而如今我在恩典中憐憫了你。

異邦人將建爾城垣、其列王為爾供役、蓋我既發怒責爾、今則施恩恤爾、

異邦人建爾城垣、列王為爾供役、蓋我既震怒責爾、今復矜憫為懷、施爾厚恩。

異邦人必建爾城垣、彼之列王必服事爾、蓋我既震怒責爾、今必施恩矜恤爾、

“ Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.

“ People from other lands will rebuild your walls. Their kings will serve you. When I was angry with you, I struck you. But now I will show you my tender love.

Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

“ Foreigners will come to rebuild your towns, and their kings will serve you. For though I have destroyed you in my anger, I will now have mercy on you through my grace.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in my wrath, yet I will show mercy to you with my favor.

“ Foreigners will build up your walls, And their kings will serve you; For in My wrath I struck you, And in My favor I have had compassion on you.

“ The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, And their kings shall minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, But in My favor I have had mercy on you.

And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.

Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in My wrath, yet I will show mercy to you with My favor.

And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.

Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.”’”

The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

In that day you will say,“ I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

“ For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.

Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. NowI make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.

Moreover I said to the king,“ If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.