For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.

你的仆人原来喜悦她的石头，可怜她的尘土。

你的仆人们喜爱锡安的石头，怜悯它的尘土。

你的仆人们喜爱锡安的石头，怜悯它的尘土。

你的仆人们喜爱城中的石头，怜惜城中的尘土。

因为你的众仆人喜爱它的石头，爱惜它的尘土。

是的，你的仆人们喜悦锡安的石头，爱慕她的尘土。

你的僕人原來喜悅她的石頭，可憐她的塵土。

你的僕人們喜愛錫安的石頭，憐憫它的塵土。

你的僕人們喜愛錫安的石頭，憐憫它的塵土。

你的僕人們喜愛城中的石頭，憐惜城中的塵土。

因為你的眾僕人喜愛它的石頭，愛惜它的塵土。

因為你僕人愛慕它的石頭；連它的塵土、他們也憐惜。

是的，你的僕人們喜悅錫安的石頭，愛慕她的塵土。

爾僕悅其石、而惜其土兮、

即其瓦礫、爾僕亦悅之、即其塵沙、爾僕亦愛之兮。

主之僕人、喜悅郇之石、珍愛郇之塵土、

吾主必興起。愍我西溫卑。西溫卑已極。蒙寵宜今茲。

For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.

The stones of your destroyed city are priceless to us. Even its dust brings deep concern to us.

For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.

For your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.

Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And feel pity for her dust.

For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.

For Your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria,“ What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill!Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

And they said to me,“ The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.

When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,

Then I said to them,“ You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

“ O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.

In Judah it was said,“ The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”

I said to the king,“ Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”