Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dus
And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The fore
By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.
Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to
“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and Y
I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt a
“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that
Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.