17 后来我对他们说： "你们都看见我们遭遇的患难： 耶路撒冷成了荒芜之地， 城门被火焚毁， 你们都来吧！ 让我们重建耶路撒冷的城墙， 免得我们再受凌辱。"

18 我告诉他们， 我的 神施恩的手怎样帮助我， 以及王对我所说的话； 他们就说： "我们要起来建造！ "于是他们奋勇着手作这善工。

17 Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced." 18 I told them about the hand of my God which was good on me, and also about the king’s words that he had spoken to me.

They said, "Let’s rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.