²⁰ Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May the Lord^(A) bless him because he has not abandoned his kindness to the living or the dead.”^(B) Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our family redeemers.”^(C)

⁹ Though we are slaves,^(A) our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings,^(B) giving us relief, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins,^(C) to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.