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Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.

Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.”

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.