Ezra 5:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹ “They gave us this answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are in the process of rebuilding the house that was erected many years ago, a house that a great king of Israel had built and completed. ¹² But because our ancestors provoked the wrath of the God of heaven, he delivered them into the power of Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.

¹³ “ ‘However, King Cyrus of Babylon,^[a] in the first year of his reign, issued a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.