For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by t
A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jeru
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried l
And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prep
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come,
So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem