Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of Your judgments, O Lord.

Mark well her strength, and observe her palaces; that you may tell the next generation.

Do good, O Lord, to Zion in Your good pleasure; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built.

The mountains are round about her, and [so] the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and forever.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and built the Sheep Gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the Tower of the Hundred they sanctified [it], to the Tower of Hananel.

And the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they roofed it, and covered in its doors, and bolts, and bars.

And next to them the Tekoites took [their] place; but the Adorim did not put their shoulders to their service.

And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, made repairs to the throne of the governor on this side the river.

And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district round about Jerusalem.

And next [to him] repaired Malchijah son of Harim, and Hashub son of Pahath-Moab, even to the Tower of the Ovens.

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the gate of the valley; they built it, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Refuse Gate.

But Shallun the son of Col-Hozeh repaired the gate of the fountain, the ruler of part of Mizpah. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors and its bars, and the wall of the pool of the skins by the meadow of the king, and as far as the steps that lead down from the City of David.

Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and [that] there were no breaks left in it; (though at that time I had not set up the doors on the gates)

And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.

HETH. And He has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the measuring line, He has not turned back His hand from afflicting her; therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.

TETH. Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles. There is no law; nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.

LAMED. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.

And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem, until Christ the Prince, [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

[May] the Lord add [blessings] to you and to your children.

Blessed are you of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house; your children as young olive-plants round about your table.

May the Lord bless you out of Zion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the likeness of a temple.

For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land; I will put My Spirit upon your seed, and My blessings upon your children;

One shall say, I am God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.

And there shall go forth from them singers, [even] the sound of men making merry, and I will multiply them, and they shall by no means be diminished.

And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before Me, and I will visit those that afflict them.

Thus says the Lord; I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a true city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty a holy mountain.

And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.

saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things pertaining to your peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

and they will level you to the ground, and your children with you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the season of your visitation."