Nehemiah 2:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ and said to the sovereign, “Let the sovereign live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And said to the king, Let the king live forever! Why should I not be sad faced when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and its [fortified] gates are consumed by fire?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Common English Bible

³ and replied, “May the king live forever! Why shouldn’t I seem sad when the city, the place of my family’s graves, is in ruins and its gates destroyed by fire?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And I said to the king: "O king, live forever. Why should my expression not be mournful, since the city of the house of the sepulchers of my father is desolate, and its gates have been burned with fire?"

Nehemiah 2:3 Cross References

1 Kings 1:31

And Bathsheḇ

2 Kings 25:8

And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Sovereign Neḇ

2 Chronicles 21:20

He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim, to no one’s regret, and passed away. And they buried him in the City of Dawiḏ

2 Chronicles 28:27

So Aḥ

2 Chronicles 32:33

So Ḥ

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burned the House of Elohim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable utensils.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity in the province are there in great evil and reproach. And the wall of Yerushalayim is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Jackals’ Fountain and the Dung Gate, and examined the walls of Yerushalayim which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

Esther 8:6

“For how could I bear to see the evil coming to my people? Or how could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Psalm 102:14

For Your servants have been pleased with her stones, And they favour her dust.

Psalm 102:15

And the nations shall fear the Name of יהוה, And all the sovereigns of the earth Your esteem,

Psalm 137:6

Let my tongue cleave to my palate, If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Yerushalayim Above my chief joy.

Psalm 38:7

For my loins have become filled with burning, And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Jeremiah 52:12

And on the tenth of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of sovereign Neḇ

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the gentiles. The Torah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from יהוה.

Daniel 2:4

And the Chaldeans spoke to the sovereign in Aramaic, “O sovereign, live forever! Relate the dream to your servants, and we shall reveal the interpretation.”

Daniel 3:9

They spoke and said to Sovereign Neḇ

Daniel 5:10

The sovereigness, because of the words of the sovereign and his great men, came to the banquet hall. And the sovereigness spoke and said, “O sovereign, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you, nor let your colour change.

Daniel 6:21

Then Dani’ĕ

Daniel 6:6

Then these governors and viceroys tumultuously gathered before the sovereign, and said this to him, “Sovereign Dareyawesh, live forever!

Leviticus 26:31

‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.