15 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
16 So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
17 When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
18 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
19 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
20 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
21 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;