25. Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers and didst sanctify them:
26. Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy own portion, and sanctify it.
27. Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God.
28. Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously with pride.
29. Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.
30. And the priests sung hymns till the sacrifice was consumed.
31. And when the sacrifice was consumed, Nehemias commanded the water that was left to be poured out upon the great stones.
32. Which being done, there was kindled a dame from them: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.
33. And when this matter became public, it was told to the king of Persia, that in the place where the priests that were led away, had hid the fire, there appeared water, with which Nehemias and they that were with him had purified the sacrifices.