4Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah
they all sinned greatly,
for they forsook the law of the Most High;
the kings of Judah came to an end;
5for they gave their power to others,
and their glory to a foreign nation,
6who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary,
and made her streets desolate,
according to the word of Jeremiah.
7For 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.
8It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory
which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
9For God remembered his enemies with storm,
and did good to those who directed their ways aright.
10May the bones of the twelve prophets
revive from where they lie,
for they comforted the people of Jacob
and delivered them with confident hope.
11How shall we magnify Zerubbabel?
He was like a signet on the right hand,
12and 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.
13The 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.
14No one like Enoch has been created on earth,
for he was taken up from the earth.
15And no man like Joseph has been born,
and his bones are cared for.
16Shem and Seth were honoured among men,
and Adam above every living being in the creation.
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