Ezra 5:5

But God was watching over ¹  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ²  until a report could be dispatched ³  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

2Ch 16:9; Ezr 6:6-12; Ezr 7:6,28; Ezr 8:22; Ps 32:8; Ps 33:18; Ps 34:15; Ps 76:10; Ps 129:2-5; Php 1:28; 1Pe 3:12

¹ tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

² tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

³ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.