Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God in Jerusalem. And with them were the prophets of God helping them.
O Jehovah the God of Israel, You are a righteous One. For we are left a survivor, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our guilt, for none is able to stand before You because of this.
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and the blood of Jerusalem shall have been rinsed away from its midst by a spirit of judgment, and by a spirit of burning.
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness; they remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned. In them is eternity, we shall be saved.
But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf, and like the wind our iniquities lift us up.
O my God, stretch out Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our ruins and the city which is called with Your name on it. For we do not make our prayers fall before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies.