1 Esdras 8:76-78

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷⁶ and to uncover a light for us in the house of the Lord our God and to give us food in the time of our servitude. Even in our bondage we were not forsaken by our Lord,^{(A) 77} but he brought us into favor with the kings of the Persians, so that they have given us food^{(B) 78} and glorified the temple of our Lord and raised Zion from desolation, to give us a stronghold in Judea and Jerusalem.