Then the heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, and everyone whose spirit God had stirred up, rose up to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem.
Then I said to them, You see the evil that we are in, how Jerusalem is wasted, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be a reproach.
I will send him against a godless nation, and on the people of My wrath. I will command him to plunder plunder, and to spoil spoil, and to appoint them a trampling like the mud of the streets.
For your wastes and that desolated of you, and land of your destructions, for now shall be too narrow to live there; and they who swallow you shall be far away.
And you forget your Maker, Jehovah, who has stretched out the heavens and founded the earth. And you dread continually, every day, from the fury of the oppressor, since he was ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the one oppressing?
Lift up Your eyes all around and see; they are all gathering; they are coming to you. Your sons shall come from far away, and Your daughters shall be supported on the side.
And there will not be a pricking brier or a painful thorn to the house of Israel any more from all who surround them, those who hate them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.