Home from exile — a temple rebuilt, and a people rebuilt to match.
"And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ______ toward Israel."
Ezra doesn't appear in the book of Ezra until chapter 7 — the first six chapters belong to Zerubbabel and the first wave home from Babylon.
When the temple foundation was laid, the young men shouted for joy and the old men — who remembered Solomon's temple — wept aloud. Scripture says you couldn't tell the sounds apart.
Ezra was 'a ready scribe in the law of Moses' who had 'prepared his heart' to study, do, and teach — in that order. Teachers, take the hint.
Portions of four chapters of Ezra were written in Aramaic, not Hebrew — official imperial correspondence, filed straight into Scripture.