and You shall be merciful to their unrighteousness in which they have trespassed against You, and according to all their transgressions that they have transgressed against You, and You shall cause them to be pitied before them that carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on them;

For we are slaves, yet in our bondage the Lord our God has not deserted us; and He has extended favor to us in the sight of the kings of the Persians, to revive us, that they should raise up the house of our God, and restore the desolate places of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before You in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their] good against the enemy.

And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.