1 Esdras 8:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ All who transgress the law of your God or the law of the kingdom shall be strictly punished, whether by death or some other punishment, either fine or imprisonment.’

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 honoured me in the sight of the king and his counsellors and all his Friends and nobles.