And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.