And they shall build old ruins; they shall raise up old desolations of former ones; and they shall restore the waste cities, ruins of generations and generations.
For we were slaves, yet our God has not left us in our bondage, but has given mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to raise up the house of our God, and to make stand its ruins, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
And those who come of you shall build the wastes of old; you shall rear the foundations of generations and generations; and you shall be called, One repairing the breach, one restoring paths to live in.
Cry out again, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: My cities shall again overflow with goodness, and Jehovah shall comfort Zion, and shall choose Jerusalem.