Nehemiah 2:3 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

³ And saying to the king, O king, thou wilt live forever: wherefore shall not my face be sad when the city of the house of my father's sepulchres was laid waste, and its gates consumed 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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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?

Nehemiah 2:3 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 1:31

And Bath-sheba will bow the face to the earth and worship to the king, and say, My lord king David shall live forever,

2 Kings 25:8

And in the fifth month, in the seventh to the month. (this year the nineteenth year to king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel,) came Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, servant of the king of Babel, to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21:20

The son of thirty and two was he in his reigning, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem; and he will go without desire: and they will bury him in the city of David, and not in the graves of the kings.

2 Chronicles 28:27

And Ahaz will lie down with his fathers, and they will bury him in the city in Jerusalem: but they brought him not to the graves of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son will reign in his stead.

2 Chronicles 32:33

And Hezekiah will lie down with his fathers, and they will bury him in the ascent of the graves of the sons of David: and all Judah and those inhabiting Jerusalem did honor to him in his death: and Manasseh his son will reign in his stead.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they will burn the house of God and break down the walls of Jerusalem, and burn all her palaces in fire, and all her precious vessels for destruction.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I shall go forth by the gate of the valley by night, and before the second fountain, and to the gate of the dung-hill, and I shall be watching the walls of Jerusalem that they being broken, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Esther 8:6

For how shall I be able and I looked upon the evil which shall be found with my people? And how shall I be able and I looked upon the destruction of my kindred?

Psalm 102:14

For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust

Psalm 102:15

And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah: and all the kings of the earth thy glory

Psalm 137:6

My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.

Psalm 38:7

I was moved, I was even greatly bowed down: all the day I went darkened.

Jeremiah 52:12

And in the fifth month, in the tenth to the month, this year the nineteenth year to king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, came Nebuzaradan, chief of the cooks, standing before the face of the king of Babel, into Jerusalem,

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates sank into the earth; he destroyed and broke her bars: her king and her chiefs among the nations: no law: also her prophets found not a vision from Jehovah.

Daniel 2:4

And the Ohaldeans will speak to the king Syriac: O king, live forever: say to thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

Daniel 3:9

They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live forever.

Daniel 5:10

The queen, on account of the king's words and his nobles', came in to the house of drinking: the queen answered and said, O king, live forever: thy thought shall not terrify thee, and thy brightnesses shall not be changed:

Daniel 6:21

Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.

Daniel 6:6

Then these presidents and satraps ran together with tumult to the king, and saying thus to him, O Darius the king, live thou forever.

Leviticus 26:31

And I gave your cities a desert, and I laid waste your holy places, and I will not smell upon the odor of your sweetness.