Nehemiah 2:3-5

New King James Version

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

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

So I ^(D)prayed to the God of heaven. ⁵ And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”