28 who says of Cyrus,(A) ‘He is my shepherd
    and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem,(B) “Let it be rebuilt,”
    and of the temple,(C) “Let its foundations(D) be laid.”’

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45 “This is what the Lord says to his anointed,(A)
    to Cyrus,(B) whose right hand I take hold(C) of
to subdue nations(D) before him
    and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
    so that gates will not be shut:

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In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:

Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid.(A) It is to be sixty cubits[a] high and sixty cubits wide,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:3 That is, about 90 feet or about 27 meters

51 At that moment the curtain of the temple(A) was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split(B)

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38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.(A)

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45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple(A) was torn in two.(B)

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