Ezra • 共 10 章
波斯王塞魯士元年，耶和華為要應驗藉耶利米口所說的話，就激動波斯王塞魯士的心，使他下詔通告全國說：
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mout...
巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒從前擄到巴比倫之猶大省的人，現在他們的子孫從被擄到之地回耶路撒冷和猶大，各歸本城。
Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of th...
到了七月，以色列人住在各城；那時他們如同一人，聚集在耶路撒冷。
When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the p...
猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽說被擄歸回的人為耶和華──以色列的神建造殿宇，
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles we...
那時，先知哈該和易多的孫子撒迦利亞奉以色列神的名向猶大和耶路撒冷的猶大人說勸勉的話。
Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews w...
於是大流士王降旨，要尋察典籍庫內，就是在巴比倫藏寶物之處；
Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the hou...
這事以後，波斯王亞達薛西年間，有個以斯拉，他是西萊雅的兒子，西萊雅是亞撒利雅的兒子，亞撒利雅是希勒家的兒子，
Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Serai...
當亞達薛西王年間，同我從巴比倫上來的人，他們的族長和他們的家譜記在下面：
These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those...
這事做完了，眾首領來見我，說：「以色列民和祭司並利未人，沒有離絕迦南人、赫人、比利洗人、耶布斯人、亞捫人、摩押人、埃及人、亞摩利人，仍效法這些國的民，行可憎的事。
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The peo...
以斯拉禱告，認罪，哭泣，俯伏在神殿前的時候，有以色列中的男女孩童聚集到以斯拉那裏，成了大會，眾民無不痛哭。
While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before t...