we were bondmen

Nehemiah 9:36, 37
So here we are today, slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its goodness. And here we are as slaves! . . .

yet our God

Psalm 106:45, 46
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. . . .

Psalm 136:23, 24
He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever. . . .

Ezekiel 11:16
Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.'

in the sight

Ezra 1:1-4, 7-11
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: . . .

Ezra 6:1-12
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon. . . .

Ezra 7:6, 8, 11-28
this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him. . . .

to set up

Ezra 6:14, 15
So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia. . . .

Haggai 1:9
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Zechariah 4:6-10
So he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts. . . .

repair.

Isaiah 5:2, 5
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! . . .

Daniel 9:25
Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

Zechariah 2:5
For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.'"