1 Esdras 8:25-27

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Ezra Praises God

²⁵ Then Ezra the scribe said,^[a] “Blessed be the Lord alone, who put this into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem, ²⁶ and who honored me in the sight of the king and his counselors and all his Friends and nobles. ²⁷ I was encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and I gathered men from Israel to go up with me.”