¹⁵ I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.

⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

⁴ And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

¹ The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;

² I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

² On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,