Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

你们要呼求我，祷告我，我就应允你们。

你们呼求我，向我祷告，我就应允你们。

你们呼求我，向我祷告，我就应允你们。

那时，你们必呼求我，向我祷告，我也必垂听。

‘你们要呼求我，要来向我祷告，我就必应允你们。

你們要呼求我，禱告我，我就應允你們。

你們呼求我，向我禱告，我就應允你們。

你們呼求我，向我禱告，我就應允你們。

那時，你們必呼求我，向我禱告，我也必垂聽。

‘你們要呼求我，要來向我禱告，我就必應允你們。

你們要呼求我，要來禱告我，我就聽你們。

爾必籲我、往而禱我、我必垂聽、

爾禱告予、當祈求不輟、我必俯聞、

爾呼籲我、往祈禱我、我必俯聞、

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Then you will call out to me. You will come and pray to me. And I will listen to you.

In those days when you pray, I will listen.

You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

“ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say,‘ They are my people’; and they will say,‘ The Lord is my God.’”

With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

For the Lord builds up Zion; he appears in his glory;he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

“ Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying,“ O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against himand have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.“ O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Then the king said to me,“ What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.And I said to the king,“ If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”And the king said to me( the queen sitting beside him),“ How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.And I said to the king,“ If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days.Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.Then I said to them,“ You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said,“ Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said,“ What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”Then I replied to them,“ The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”