To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.

And so I said to them: "You know the affliction in which we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and its gates have been consumed by fire. Come, and let us rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, and let us no longer be in disgrace."

I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;