Neh 2:3 | NASB2020 | STEP | And I said to the king , “ May the king live forever . Why should my face not be sad when the city , the site of my fathers’ tombs , is desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire ?”

b 2 Kin 25:8-10; 2 Chr 36:19; Neh 1:3; Jer 52:12-14

Nehemiah 2:3

3 And I said to the king, “ ^aMay the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad ^bwhen the city, the ^{▼▼Lit house}site of my fathers’ tombs, is desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”