1 Esdras 8:75-77

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷⁵ And now in some measure mercy has come to us from you, O Lord, to leave to us a root and a name in your holy place^{(A) 76} and to uncover a light for us in the house of the Lord our God and to give us food in the time of our servitude. Even in our bondage we were not forsaken by our Lord,^{(B) 77} but he brought us into favor with the kings of the Persians, so that they have given us food^(C)