¹⁷ Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies ^[a]waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be ^(A)a reproach.” ¹⁸ And I told them of ^(B)the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.

So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they ^(C)set^[b] their hands to this good work.