Ezra 9:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ “But now, for a brief while the Lord our God has shown favor in leaving us survivors and in giving us a stake in his holy place. Our God cheered us^[a] and revived us for a little while in our slavery. ⁹ Even though we are slaves, our God hasn’t abandoned us in our slavery. Instead, he’s shown us his graciousness before Persia’s kings by reviving us to set up our God’s house, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem.

¹⁰ “And now, our God, what will we say after this? We have abandoned your commandments,