"V'HAR-AYNU...B'NECHOMAS TZIYOHN IRECHO" - ALLOW US TO REBUILD THE "BAYS HAMIKDOSH" AND SERVE HASHEM
"v'har-aynu Hashem Eloh-kaynu b'nechomas tziyohn irechouv'vinyan y'rusholai-yim ir kodshecho" - (and let us see,Hashem our G-d, Zion Your city, being comforted and Jerusalem,the city of Your holiness, being rebuilt...)
"Because Hashem comfortED Zion" (Y'shai-yo-hu 51:3)Hashem will comfort Zion in the future, yet the Prophet uses thepast tense, as if Zion has been comforted. Since we have completetrust that Hashem is going to take us out of exile, it is writtenas if He already did it. (M'tzudas Dovid)
"ki ato hu ba'al haishu-ohs uva'al hanechomohs" -(because You are the One who has the power to help and theability to give comfort) "I am, I am, He that comfortsyou." (Y'shai-yo-hu 51:l2) When Hashem comforts a person, itis a true comfort. (M'tzudas Dovid)