Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

你的儿女必急速归回；毁坏你的，使你荒废的，必都离你出去，

建立你的胜过毁坏你的，使你荒废的必都离你而去。

建立你的胜过毁坏你的，使你荒废的必都离你而去。

你的儿女必很快回来，毁灭和破坏你的必离你而去。

重建你的（按照《马索拉文本》，“重建你的”作“你的儿女们”；现参照《死海古卷》和其他古译本翻译）要急速归回，那些毁坏你的和那些使你荒废的，都必离你而去。

重建你的必快速回来，而那些毁坏你、使你荒废的，都必离你而去。

你的兒女必急速歸回；毀壞你的，使你荒廢的，必都離你出去，

建立你的勝過毀壞你的，使你荒廢的必都離你而去。

建立你的勝過毀壞你的，使你荒廢的必都離你而去。

你的兒女必很快回來，毀滅和破壞你的必離你而去。

重建你的（按照《馬索拉文本》，“重建你的”作“你的兒女們”；現參照《死海古卷》和其他古譯本翻譯）要急速歸回，那些毀壞你的和那些使你荒廢的，都必離你而去。

建造你的比拆毁你的敏捷；那使你荒廢的、必都離開你而去。

重建你的必快速回來，而那些毀壞你、使你荒廢的，都必離你而去。

爾之子女速歸、毀滅爾、荒廢爾者、必遠離爾、

爾之赤子、必速歸爾、爾之外侮、必遠離爾、

爾之諸子將速歸、毀爾使爾荒蕪者、必離爾出、

Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

Your people will hurry back. Those who destroyed you so completely will leave you.

Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.

Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will leave you.

Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.

Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.

For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a groom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

But you have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You are in constant dread all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who has set himself to destroy. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

“ The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by prickly briers or painful thorns from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

This is what your Lord says— Yahweh, even your God, who defends His people—“ Look, I have removed the cup of staggering from your hand; that goblet, the cup of My fury. You will never drink it again.I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you: Lie down, so we can walk over you. You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.

So the family leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites— everyone God had motivated— prepared to go up and rebuild the Lord’s house in Jerusalem.

There is no one to guide her among all the children she has raised; there is no one to take hold of her hand among all the offspring she has brought up.These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Lord’s fury, the rebuke of your God.

For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins— will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

So I said to them,“ You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned down. Come, let’s rebuild Jerusalem’s wall, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Then the king asked me,“ What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heavenand answered the king,“ If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, send me to Judah and to the city where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”The king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me,“ How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So I gave him a definite time, and it pleased the king to send me.I also said to the king:“ If it pleases the king, let me have letters written to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple’s fortress, the city wall, and the home where I will live.” The king granted my requests, for I was graciously strengthened by my God.I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me.