Soothly the elder men of Jews builded, and had prosperity, by the prophecy of Haggai, the prophet, and of Zechariah, the son of Iddo; and they builded, and made, for [the] God of Israel commanded, and for Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia, commanded;
And after that the wall of Jeru-salem was builded, and I had set up the gates thereof, and had numbered the porters, and singers, and deacons [or Levites],
And he shall be as a tree, which is planted beside the runnings of waters; that shall give his fruit in his time. And his leaf shall not fall down; and all things, whichever he shall do, shall have prosperity.
Therefore know thou, and perceive; from the going out of the word that Jerusalem be builded again, till to Christ, the duke, shall be seven weeks of years and two and sixty weeks of years; and again the street shall be builded, and walls, in the anguish of times.