Ezra 9:9

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Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings, giving us new life, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:1-4

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:

Ezra 1:7-11

King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the Lord’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the house of his gods.

Ezra 6:1-12

King Darius gave the order, and they searched in the library of Babylon in the archives.

Ezra 6:14-15

So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.

Ezra 7:6

—came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.

Ezra 7:8

Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king.

Ezra 7:11-28

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:

Nehemiah 9:36-37

Here we are today,
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!

Psalm 106:45-46

remembered His covenant with them,
and relented according to the riches
of His faithful love.

Psalm 136:23-24

He remembered us in our humiliation
His love is eternal.

Isaiah 5:2

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.

Ezekiel 11:16

“Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.

Daniel 9:25

Know and understand this:
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.

Haggai 1:9

“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Zechariah 2:5

The declaration of the Lord: “I will be a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory within it.”

Zechariah 4:6-10

So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ezra 9:9

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

We were bondmen

Nehemiah 9:36

Yet our god

Psalm 106:45

Psalm 136:23

Ezekiel 11:16

In the sight

Ezra 1:1

Ezra 6:1

Ezra 7:6

To set up

Ezra 6:14

Haggai 1:9

Zechariah 4:6

General references

Nehemiah 9:36

Psalm 106:46

Isaiah 14:3

Bible References

We were bondmen

Here we are today,
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!

Yet our god

remembered His covenant with them,
and relented according to the riches
of His faithful love.

He remembered us in our humiliation
His love is eternal.

In the sight

King Darius gave the order, and they searched in the library of Babylon in the archives.

To set up

So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts.

General references

Here we are today,
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!

He caused them to be pitied
before all their captors.

When the Lord gives you rest from your pain, torment, and the hard labor you were forced to do,