You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

你们要呼求我，祷告我，我就应允你们。

你们呼求我，向我祷告，我就应允你们。

你们呼求我，向我祷告，我就应允你们。

那时，你们必呼求我，向我祷告，我也必垂听。

‘你们要呼求我，要来向我祷告，我就必应允你们。

你們要呼求我，禱告我，我就應允你們。

你們呼求我，向我禱告，我就應允你們。

你們呼求我，向我禱告，我就應允你們。

那時，你們必呼求我，向我禱告，我也必垂聽。

‘你們要呼求我，要來向我禱告，我就必應允你們。

你們要呼求我，要來禱告我，我就聽你們。

爾必籲我、往而禱我、我必垂聽、

爾禱告予、當祈求不輟、我必俯聞、

爾呼籲我、往祈禱我、我必俯聞、

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Then you will call out to me. You will come and pray to me. And I will listen to you.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

In those days when you pray, I will listen.

You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

“ Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

‘ Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say,‘ It is my people;’ and they will say,‘ Yahweh is my God.’”

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

“‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said,“ Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.“ Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.“ Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.“ Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.“ Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Then the king said to me,“ What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.I said to the king,“ If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”The king said to me( the queen was also sitting by him),“ How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.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.When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.Then I said to them,“ You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said,“ Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said,“ What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”Then I answered them, and said to them,“ The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”