9 For we are servants;+ and in our servitude our God has not left us,+ but he extends toward us loving-kindness before the kings of Persia,+ to give us a reviving so as to raise up the house of our God+ and to restore its desolated places+ and to give us a stone wall+ in Judah and in Jerusalem.

37 and its produce is abounding+ for the kings+ that you have put over us because of our sins,+ and over our bodies they are ruling and over our domestic animals, according to their liking, and we are in great distress.*+