Nehemiah 2:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?

⁴ Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,

⁵ And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.