¹⁸ Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁶ When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;

³² Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

¹¹ A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

⁵ And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.

²⁸ In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

²⁹ Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

⁵ As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

⁹ Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

¹¹ For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.

⁵⁰ You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

⁶ I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

⁷ And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

²² Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

³⁵ For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

⁶ O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well.

⁷ May peace be inside your walls, and wealth in your noble houses.

⁸ Because of my brothers and friends, I will now say, Let peace be with you.

⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.

⁵ If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

⁶ If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

² The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.

³ For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

¹² And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

¹ Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

¹⁷ Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.