2 “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says, ‘Jehovah the God of the heavens has given me all the kingdoms of the earth,+ and he has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem,+ which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel—he is the true God—whose house was in Jerusalem.*

22 This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:

10 Pass through, pass through the gates.

Clear the way for the people.+

Build up, build up the highway.

Rid it of stones.+

Raise up a signal* for the peoples.+