¹² a land that the Lord your God cares for. ^(A)The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

^6 (A)I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. ^(B)I will build them up, and not tear them down; ^(C)I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

³ And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, ^(A)by putting my name there forever. ^(B)My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

⁵ But ^(A)the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.