1 Esdras 8:25-27

Common English Bible

^25 [a] Bless the Lord alone, who put this into the king’s heart, to glorify his house in Jerusalem, ²⁶ and who honored me before the king, the counselors, all of his political advisors,^[b] and officials. ²⁷ I was encouraged by my God’s help, and I gathered people from Israel to go up with me.