¹⁷ But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;^(A)
    it will be holy,^(B)
    and Jacob will possess his inheritance.^(C)

¹⁸ May it please you to prosper Zion,^(A)
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.^(B)

²⁶ who carries out the words^(A) of his servants
    and fulfills^(B) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,^(C) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,^(D) ‘I will restore them,’^(E)