²⁷ Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s mind^(A) to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,^{(B) 28} and who has shown favor to me before the king,^(C) his counselors, and all his powerful officers. So I took courage because I was strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God,^[a](D) and I gathered Israelite leaders to return with me.^(E)