Ezra 7:27-28

New King James Version

^27 (A)Blessed^[a] be the Lord God of our fathers, ^(B)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, ²⁸ and ^(C)has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes.

So I was encouraged, as ^(D)the hand of the Lord my God was upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me.