Nehemiah 2:2-4

New King James Version

² Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but ^(A)sorrow of heart.”

So I became ^[a]dreadfully afraid, ³ and said to the king, ^(B)“May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when ^(C)the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with ^(D)fire?”

⁴ Then the king said to me, “What do you request?”

So I ^(E)prayed to the God of heaven.