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for they gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation,
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who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made her streets desolate, according to the word of Jeremiah.
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For they had afflicted him; yet he had been consecrated in the womb as prophet, to pluck up and afflict and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant.
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It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
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For God remembered his enemies with storm, and did good to those who directed their ways aright.
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May the bones of the twelve prophets revive from where they lie, for they comforted the people of Jacob and delivered them with confident hope.
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How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? He was like a signet on the right hand,
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and so was Jeshua the son of Jozadak; in their days they built the house and raised a temple holy to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.
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The memory of Nehemiah also is lasting; he raised for us the walls that had fallen, and set up the gates and bars and rebuilt our ruined houses.
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No one like Enoch has been created on earth, for he was taken up from the earth.
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And no man like Joseph has been born, and his bones are cared for.