Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And feel pity for her dust.

你的仆人原来喜悦她的石头，可怜她的尘土。

你的仆人们喜爱锡安的石头，怜悯它的尘土。

你的仆人们喜爱锡安的石头，怜悯它的尘土。

你的仆人们喜爱城中的石头，怜惜城中的尘土。

因为你的众仆人喜爱它的石头，爱惜它的尘土。

是的，你的仆人们喜悦锡安的石头，爱慕她的尘土。

你的僕人原來喜悅她的石頭，可憐她的塵土。

你的僕人們喜愛錫安的石頭，憐憫它的塵土。

你的僕人們喜愛錫安的石頭，憐憫它的塵土。

你的僕人們喜愛城中的石頭，憐惜城中的塵土。

因為你的眾僕人喜愛它的石頭，愛惜它的塵土。

因為你僕人愛慕它的石頭；連它的塵土、他們也憐惜。

是的，你的僕人們喜悅錫安的石頭，愛慕她的塵土。

爾僕悅其石、而惜其土兮、

即其瓦礫、爾僕亦悅之、即其塵沙、爾僕亦愛之兮。

主之僕人、喜悅郇之石、珍愛郇之塵土、

吾主必興起。愍我西溫卑。西溫卑已極。蒙寵宜今茲。

For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.

The stones of your destroyed city are priceless to us. Even its dust brings deep concern to us.

For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.

For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.

For your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.

For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.

For Your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy people of Samaria and said,“ What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore the temple for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Can they revive the stones from the heaps of rubble, even the burned ones?”

God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

If I forget you, Jerusalem, May my right hand forget its skill.May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

And they said to me,“ The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and disgrace, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose up, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one person to Jerusalem.Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, rose up and built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses, the man of God.So they set up the altar on its foundation, because they were terrified of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

Then I said to them,“ You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates have been burned by fire. Come, let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

For they have devoured Jacob And laid waste his settlement.Do not hold us responsible for the guilty deeds of our forefathers; Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us, For we have become very low.Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; And save us and forgive our sins for the sake of Your name.Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?” Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the wrongdoings of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of taunting to all those around us.

And so in Judah it was said:“ The strength of the burden bearers is failing, Yet there is much rubble; And we ourselves are unable To rebuild the wall.”

And I said to the king,“ May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the site of my fathers’ tombs, is desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”